RE: SWAP Space Confusion Note 1354525.1
- From: <Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:50:15 -0600
So, going back to this...
(env 10.2.0.4 RAC on 3 node RHEL 5.6 64-bit)
On a system with 128GB RAM, 100GB SGA, 20 GB PGA, 500 connected sessions (20-30
active), how confident can we be that 16GB of SWAP is sufficient?
(side note: RHEL is running at mostly default settings such as vm.swappiness =
60)
I've seen notes all over the place on this and I'm wary setting the swap space
too low but also don't want to set aside a large swap area just to have it
sitting there doing mostly nothing.
Chris
Ref: 10gR2 SWAP Space Requirement For Systems Having Huge RAM [ID 1354525.1]
Per the above doc, the "GOAL" section says:
"For Systems having Huge Memory (RAM) is it really required to have SWAP Space
as 0.75 X RAM"
Per the Solution it says:
Solution
As per the Documentation below is the swap space requirement for 10gR2:
RAM Swap Space
=== =========Up to 512 MB 2 times
the size of RAM
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
As part of Unpublished Documentation Bug below are the new values for SWAP
Space requirements approved by Oracle Development Team and also updated in 11.1
and 11.2 Install guides as below:
RAM Swap Space
=== =========Between 1 GB and 2 GB 1.5 times the size
of RAM
Between 2 GB and 16 GB Equal to the size of RAM
More than 16 GB 16 GB
All the other pre-requisites mentioned for Oracle Database Software in the
installation guide published by Oracle Development Team need to be completed as
appropriate.
You may proceed with the swap space requirements as mentioned in the updated
guides and ignore any swap related warnings during the installation of 10gR2.
Chris Taylor
Oracle DBA
Parallon IT&S
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