On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 23:23:38 +0000 (+0000), Alan Pope wrote: > For some time now on 64-bit platforms the recommendation has been "at > least 20G of swap" no matter how much RAM you have. If you have ever > studied the SAP memory management system you can see why. The general > argument goes that 20G of swap is considerably cheaper than having > your multi-million pound business down for half a day whilst an admin > (or expensive external consultant) debugs a memory issue.
Paging in 20GB of swap means your system performance is already going to be pants. Or dead. I'm all for nor falling over since you are a _little_ tight on memory, but really if you manage to undercut it by 20GB you are in serious trouble anyway :-) My issue was that (as I understood it), SAP would _not support_ it unless we had such a ridiculous amount of swap setup. Adrian -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*- GPG key available on public key servers Debian GNU/Linux - the maintainable distribution -*- www.debian.org -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
