Disk size for HP-UX 11.00

[Bruce Baillie]

I have some systems with 4GB hard drives. I plan on a cold install of HP-UX 11.00. I understand that I need to have 1GB swap. Will a 4GB disk be adequate?

[Thomas G. Tudrej · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Yes, we have 4GB as a standard for vg00, roughly 2-3 GB shoould be enough. Keep in mind that if yoiu keep adding files to /home or /opt withoiut creating new file systems on other VGs you'll run out of room eventually.

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

Hi Bruce,

It is okay to use 4Gb, but you have to watch the logs as the grow with time and 1Gb for swap is adequate, but you have to set the following kernel parameters for flexibility in swapping:
allocate_fs_swapmap=0
swapmem_on=1

Cheers!

[Bruce Baillie]

Thanks for the quick response, very helpfull.