simple swap question

[B. Chapman]

Experts,

This question might be a bit too vague: We have a RP7410 partitioned as a SOLO box (one NPAR, one VPAR). It has 6 CPu's and 24 Gig of memory, and is Fibre-connected to a EMC box. Here goes the *most* vague question ever!

How much SWAP should I allocate?

Basically, I'm looking for the rule-of-thumb for swap usage.

Thanks in advance!

Later,
Ben Chapman
chapmanb@saic.com

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Ben,

There's a pretty good discussion on this very subject right here:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x211006350fe2d61190050090279cd0f9,00.html


Pete

[B. Chapman]

Pete - many thanks! Exactly what I'm looking for.

Later,
Ben.

[Steven E. Protter]

HP's rule below 16 G physical memory.

Swap=Twice physical memory

Above that level it becomes expensive and the swap usuage would be low on percentage basis..

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