HP-UX 11.00 physical memory limitations

[u856100]

Guru's,

Is anyone aware of the minimum amount of RAM needed to run hp-ux 11.00?

thanks in advance

John

[Tom Geudens · Accepted solution]

Hi,
I'm definitely not a Guru ... but I did try this :-)
256 Mb is the absolute minimum. Don't expect to run anything else next to the Unix though.
512 Mb would be the minimum if you want to run a database (tried this with oracle) too.

I am however a big fan of the "Memory is cheap, so buy lots"-rule :-).

Hope this helps,
Tom Geudens

[Frederic Sevestre]

Hi,

HP-UX 11.00 32-bits --> 32 MB
HP-UX 11.00 64-bits --> 64 MB
This is the absolute minimum to boot, but it is not recommanded.
A minimum of 512 MB is recommanded for 64-bits

Fr??d??ric

[Alan Casey]

HP-UX 11.0 is supported on the HP 9000 systems listed below (newly supported system are shown in bold). For the latest list of supported systems, see this Web page:

devresource.hp.com/STK/hpux_faq.html

Model 32-bit 64-bit
Workstations:



Series 700: 712, 715/64/80/100/100XC, 725/100
X


B132L, B132L+, B160L, B180L
X


B1000, B2000

X

C100, C110, C160L
X


C160, C180, C180XP, C200, C240, C360
X
X

C3000, C3600

X

J200, J210, J210XC
X


J280, J282, J2240
X
X

J5000, J5600, J6000, J7000

X

Servers:



A180, A180C
X


A400, A5xx

X

Dx10, Dx20, Dx30, Dx50, Dx60
X


Dx70, Dx80, Dx90
X
X

E, F, G, H, I (all)
X


Kx00, Kx10, Kx20
X


Kx50, Kx60, Kx70, Kx80
X
X

L1000, L2000, L3000

X

N4000/360, N4000/440, N4000/550

X

R380, R390
X
X

T500, T520
X


T6xx
X
X

V22xx, V2500, V2600

X

Enterprise Parallel Servers: EPS22, EPS23, EPS40
X
X




Unsupported Hardware



These workstations and graphics adapters are no longer supported:

Workstations: 705, 710, 715/33, 715/50, 715/75, 720, 725/50, 725/75, 730, 735, 750, 755


Graphics adapters: GRX, CRX, CRX-24, CRX-48Z

Storage Requirements



HP-UX 11.0 requires a system having:

64 MB memory, minimum.


128 MB swap space for updating or cold-installing.


2GB root disk, minimum, when installing or updating to HP-UX 11.0. This can be a single disk drive or combination of physical disks configured as one root volume group.

[u856100]

OK,

I have a HP 9000 series 712 with a 100MHz processor.

At present RAM is not a problem, as for the hard disk, I have a 1GB boot disk only.

I am obviously not going to be able to get ver 11.00 onto it.

thanks for your help,

John

P.s. any ideas where I can get some cheap disks, hash units, etc.

[u856100]

Is anyone aware of a command that can discover what bit speed the machine is operating at?

I assume the 9000/712/100 is 32 bit, but is there a way of finding out without looking at the owners manual?

thanks again,

John

[Alan Casey]

getconf KERNEL_BITS


This will tell you if the kernel ( and therefore the operating system) is 32 or 64 bit

[Frederic Sevestre]

HI,
Try getconf KERNEL_BITS

Fr??d??ric

[harry d brown jr]

Well, it depends whether you plan on using the machine for much of anything else. For instance, if you add a database, you'll need more memory. Make it a web server running java, and you'll need more memory. 128mb of ram is required to install 11i, and 256 is recommended just to run it.

http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/os/11i/hpwoldfullpres.pdf

live free or die
harry

[fg_1]

HI

To get the version of the O/S you have loaded, execute the command below:

getconf KERNEL_BITS

As for memory limits and minimum's, the main theory that I have been told before is that the minimum required to run the O/S is 32MB for 32bit, and 64MB for 64bit.

Now for the tricky part of configuring the right amount of memory for your system. Several factors go into this, such as database, application used, how many users are going to accessing the system (this is a big one), and what speed of processor's you will be running.

Databases such as oracle, I have in the past used 512MB memory for each oracle instance as a minimum rule of thumb.

Applications such as high I/O rated one's that we use here in the medical field require a fair amt of memory in order to function, so now we are configuring a minimum of 4Gb for each 11.00 system with oracle.

As for users, we have over 3000 users on our systems and have not had any performace issues.

Good luck.