[Gllug] Swap Restrictions

[Tethys]

Alan Pope writes:

>Some application products specify a large amount of swap due to the way
>they use (considerably) large amounts of memory. Take SAP BW for
>example. *Minimum* swap recommended is 20GiB on a 64-bit platform.

Perhaps so, but SAP is not a good example here. It's a poorly written
app, and statements like that are designed to cover the company's
behind, rather than being based on any sound technical reasoning.

Tet
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