[CentOS] How to Increase Swap Memory in Centos 4.4?

[Antonio da Silva Martins Junior]

----- "Rodrigo Barbosa" <rodrigob at darkover.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:07:53AM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > On 4/3/07, Pham Hai <haisoncompany at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >To install Oracle Database 10g, I need to increase the swap memory
> > >to 1004 MB.
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> > Tangential aside:  Does anyone have an informed opinion on whether
> > the "swap should be double RAM" rule still makes sense?
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> The original rule (still valid, AFAIC) was:
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> "swap should be NO MORE than the double RAM"

  Well, on old unix systems (Solaris, AIX), if you didn't have swap at 
least the double of RAM you can't use all your RAM. 

  But, back then 64Mb RAM was a lot of RAM.

    Antonio.

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