SWAP file size

[ashley75]

I will reconfigure the Linux 2.1 O/S and I have question about the SWAP file. From what I know, Oracle suggest to have the SWAP space has to be at least 400m or twice of the amount of the physical RAM (whichever is greater), in my case, I have 2G ram on the server, so I should have 4G for the SWAP file, right ????

I am not Linux admin, I did configure Linux 7.3 professional before to run 9i database and everything works fine, my company make me do this again even I am not system admin here, is there anything I need to watch out for this configuration for Linux as well as installing Oracle???

thanks

 

[miblo]

If you're going to reinstall the OS, you will have an option of setting the swap-size (or size of the swap partition, actually). Newer kernels also support a swap-file, which AFAIK is located in / on the root-partition.

Check with Oracle what their requirements are on swap file/partition...

 

[fluid11]

I assume your talking about Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1. Red Hat recommends that you use twice your RAM up to a maximum of 2Gb.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/ch-swapspace.html

ChrisP
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