RE: oracle/solaris 10 memory and swap

Andrew,

 

>My sysadmin says 8g swap is plenty.  Before I ask him to show me his
Oracle dba credentials, can someone point me to a somewhere that has
more informatiion on this.



I runned a 9207 RAC on Solaris 9 64bits, with vxvm also and suncluster
3.0 (2-node), DISM configured and used, and have in the past problem due
to swap shortage.

 

Sorry I cannot tell you specifics abot Solaris 10 (for the shmmax
settings), but based on the previous experience, allocating 12 Gbyte of
swap for a 16 Gbyte node is not unreasonable at all.

 

If the sysadm gets picky about this, tell him to put in writing the
decision :-)

 

alvaro

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