Richardson, Robert said: > > Questions: > 1. What is the amount of swap that should be configured?
this totally depends on your server load. I prefer to configure my systems to have enough ram for EVERYTHING. I have swap for emergency purposes only(e.g. runaway process, which is very very very rare for me). If you have gobs of disk space it doesn't hurt to setup 8-10GB worth of swap, though if your system needed that much memory I would prefer to use a cluster setup and have the DB load balanced accross multiple servers. Most of my systems have 2-5x the RAM needed for normal operations. So digging in to swap is indeed a rare occurance. > 2. Is it true that Linux swap should not exceed 4GB? I haven't heard of this myself. Last I heard linux swap partitions were maxed out at 2GB per partition. So if you wanted 4GB of swap you'd need 2 x 2GB swap partitions(or use a swap file which I wouldn't reccomend, too slow). > 3. Should the first swap partition be forced to be primary partition? I haven't heard of this either, I almost always have my swap partitions on logical drives. I reccomend you stripe the swap partitions, you can do this by mounting them with the same priority(see manpage for fstab for details). Unless the swap partition(s) are on the same disk/array then there isn't much point in striping them as you won't get much more performance out of it. >4. What version of RH 7.X is Advanced Server 2.1 based on? I would expect, 7.x. I'd hope that red hat would keep their number naming scheme consistant. You can always compare the versions of the various packages installed with whats on the 'standard' redhat, chances are pretty good the majority of them will be the same, perhaps libc, kernel, and a few other libs will be different. nate -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
