The link to the paper is: http://www.sun.com/solutions/blueprints/1202/817-1054.pdf. As Brian_P_MacLean has quoted. My question is pretty easy: how does the word make sense ,if it not because of swapping-algorithm bugs: "A more serious problem, however, is that sizing swap to be too large can ause hard-pageout1 to occur too easily." ----- Original Message ----- From: <dantow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 11:24 PM Subject: Re: OT: question about sizing swap for solaris > Responses inline... > 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! > > 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> ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------