[Gllug] Swap file size

[Vincent AE Scott]

Jim Cheetham(jim.gllug at gonzul.org)@Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 04:38:49PM +0000:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:48:55PM +0000, Lee Blackwell wrote:
> > For my Sun servers, with 4Gb RAM I use a 1Gb swap file. As there is
> > usually 50Gb or more online then I don't really worry about 1Gb of space
> > that might be unused.
> 
> Errm, but when a Sun box dies and dumps memory, doesn't it stream it all
> into swap space?

only if you turn on crash sump analysis in the init scripts.


> So if you ever needed to do dump analysis to find out what your box was
> doing when it went down, you'd need at least swap = ram ...
> 
> And /tmp is usually provided from swap space, iirc ... so swap > ram would
> probably be nice ...

memory is cheap.
disk is cheap.


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