Re: swap on solaris8 64 bit for oracle 8i

Gulabchand Jaiswal wrote:
>
> Hello All,
> Need your input on following config recommended by our system
> architect ..
> I do not agree with these recommendations.
>
> In solaris8 admin class, the instructor apparently told this sys
> architect
> that solaris8 has some "smart" swap and swapsize of 25 % the size of
> RAM is fine !! We have a huge 24 GB RAM domain on an E10K with 64bit
> solaris8. We run 32 bit
> oracle 8.1.7.1.0. A 6 GB swap on this machine sounds very less.
> IS this thing something new ?? or am i too old fashioned to need 1-
> 1.5 times the RAM as my swap space ?
>
> oracle doc id 148673.1 still refers to "2 times the RAM" swap space
> for oracle 9i for solaris!
> it is not specific with soalris8 though.
>
> Please respond ASAP.
>
> Thx in advance.
> Reg
> G

I use Solaris 8 exclusively for our DBs and while it may have "smart" swap, in practice 8.1.7.1 still seems to consume alot of swap on my machines.

I would stick with (1.5 - 2.0) * RAM. I'm finding at least 50% of my 2*RAM allocation is used up.

-Dirk Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 16:22:51 CDT