Re: how much swap for 10g on a 4Gb RAM system?

joel garry wrote:
On Jul 29, 12:19 pm, Palooka <nob...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
obakesan wrote:
Hi
I'm just going through installing 10g and wondered about the swap
requirements. The documents I'm reading suggest:
" Swap space should be twice the amount of RAM for systems with 2GB of
RAM or less and between one and two times the amount of RAM for systems with
more than 2GB. "
Since I've got 4 Gig, do I really need 4Gig of Swap? I'm not pressing this
system as its just a "learning" platform.
Has anyone got any experience with trying this with less:
$ grep -i swaptotal /proc/meminfo
SwapTotal: 2031608 kB
Surely it can't hurt just to follow the instructions, can it?

Palooka

Yes, it can. It can hurt a lot. That's why the instructions change
over time, and sometimes do not reconcile between release notes,
installation guides and metalink notes. Platform specific issues can
be especially irritating, and the range of configuration issues over
various linux releases is quite broad.

Joel,

I confess to being a little surprised at this. If Oracle say double the RAM, why not just do so? A few gig of disk space is surely neither here nor there nowadays. Can you elucidate?

Palooka
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