Swap space/Phys Mem configuration

Hi
I would like your idea on this situation

Here is a typical configuration that we have

Physical Memory: 16 Gigs
Swap: 1 logical device of 16 Gigs

Swap Device Type Avail Used
Priority
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/vg00/lvol2 device 16.0gb 0mb
1
pseudo-swap memory 12.4gb 8.4gb na

Total VM : 462.7mb Sys Mem : 1.89gb User Mem: 284.0mb Phys Mem:
16.0gb
Active VM: 402.0mb Buf Cache: 8.00gb Free Mem: 5.83gb

and that was at 99.7% IDLE

That is a nightly build machine.
And we -frequently- ran into:

/usr/lib/dld.sl: Call to mmap() failed - TEXT /usr/lib/libstd_v2.2
/usr/lib/dld.sl: Not enough space

I remember that Swap >= 4 * Physical Memory. Because the above
configuration does not make use of Virtual Memory Swap at all.

Anybody can back me up on that?

Thanks

.

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