I am going to be building a V490 with 16GB of memory. What is the required
amount of swap that I should allow for these days? Also, what size should
my crash area be set to? I will be installing Solaris 9. I used to follow
a 1 to 1 ratio, but that does seem excessive.
Re: Swap space ... > twice the amount of RAM if you need to capture a dump for debugging. ... > If you won't ever be doing that, you may not need so much swap.... least the size of physical memory.... (freebsd-questions)
Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/9] deadlock prevention core ... don't try to swap over the network. ... We could track dirty anonymous memory and throttle. ... the theoretical max amount of memory one can 'lose' in socket ... to be stuck in wait queues.... (Linux-Kernel)
Re: Question about top values on memory usage ... Another question is that is httpd uses threads (as provided by FreeBSD) ... SIZE is the total amount of virtual memory that a process has allocated. ... RES is the amount of physical memory in use by the process and will only include that part of a process's virtual memory space which is currently allocated in physical memory. ... The amount of swap space will place a hard upper bound on the number of httpd processes you can run before sbrk start failing. ... (freebsd-stable)
Re: swap ... They have 8 processor machines with 64GB of memory already. ... That is pretty much what IBMs LPAR of AS/400 and AIX (and other ... the OS to manage a multi-disk swap farm?... Add enough swap to "cover" the anemic amount of working room problems ... (Debian-User)
Re: swap/memory ratio ... If you are actually using any swap at all you will run extremely ... any amount of memory you might use. ... memory, and use secondary swap (regular filesystem files, see the hp-ux... (comp.databases.oracle.misc)
