Re: Log writter excessive memory usage.

"Tanel Poder" <tanel@@peldik.com> wrote in message news:<3f21bcee$1_1_at_news.estpak.ee>...
> Hi!
>
> First thing that comes into my mind is why have you configured only 4G of
> swap with 32G of memory?
> I'm not sure about AIX, but AFAIK standard Unixes like Solaris and HP-UX do
> want to map whole memory to pagefile as well, so if you want real paging to
> occur, you should actually have even more space allocated.
>
> I don't believe it's changed in recent versions...
>
> Btw. linux is different, it handles virtual memory differently & doesn't
> want to match physical memory with swap space. (On Windows I don't know how
> it works and do not care much either..)
>
> Tanel.

Solaris 2 (SunOS5) and up does not require physical swap space size matching or exceeding real memory. I doubt current AIX or HPUX requires that but I don't know much about those two flavors.

Yong Huang Received on Sat Jul 26 2003 - 23:03:50 CDT