RE: oracle/solaris 10 memory and swap

General Unix rule of thumb is that swap must be twice real ram.  That's
been around for a VERY long time & never fails.  BTW: from the Oracle
Solaris installation manual:

 


2.2 Checking the Hardware Requirements


The system must meet the following minimum hardware requirements:

*         At least 1024 MB of physical RAM

*         The following table describes the relationship between
installed RAM and the configured swap space requirement.

RAM

Swap Space

Between 1024 MB and 2048 MB

1.5 times the size of RAM

Between 2049 MB and 8192 MB

Equal to the size of RAM

More than 8192 MB

0.75 times the size of RAM

*        

*         400 MB of disk space in the /tmp directory

*         Between 1.5 GB and 3.5 GB of disk space for the Oracle
software, depending on the installation type

*         1.2 GB of disk space for a preconfigured database that uses
file system storage (optional)

 

 

That comes to 12GB in your case.

 

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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alvaro Jose
Fernandez
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 9:46 AM
To: andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l
Subject: 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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