Responses inline... Quoting zhu chao <chao_ping@xxxxxxxxxxx>: ... > > To Dan Tow, your words said that if swap size is small, application will > hit "out of memory", while that whitepaper on sun.com says, more swap space > than needed can actually cause hard-pageout to occur more easily. There is > some difference between your opinion and the paper. Well, I haven't read the still-unreferenced paper, but absolutely there is a difference between my opinion and what the paper apparently says - to be clearer, in my opinion: low swap size "prevents" page faults (by triggerign errors, instead) only in the same sense that running out of gas "prevents" bad gas mileage! > And you said , from experience, you saw some application with a lot of > processes swapped out to disk, without performance impact on end user, is > that an oracle database server? I think that will badly impact on system > performance, according to my experience(Of course my experience is much less > than that of yours). My statement applies to database servers and non-database servers, alike. Where I have specifically, quantitatively measured the true end-user costs of paging and swapping, I have never seen them to be high, except on systems that were victims of operating-systems swapping-algorithm bugs, which have long-since been fixed. I *have* heard plenty of *anecdotes* about swapping and paging being big problems, but I have never seen these stories backed up with hard data. I certainly believe it's *possible*, though - you just need to buy less memory than you need, in spite of how cheap memory is. I have gathered data on a different subset of systems than you have, however, so it is entirely possible you have seen one of those hypothetical systems with insufficient memory. > > Regards > Zhu Chao. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------