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

Wed Apr 4 15:26:49 UTC 2007
Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at darkover.org>

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On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 04:48:05PM -0300, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior wrote:
> > 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.
> > > 
> > > Tangential aside:  Does anyone have an informed opinion on whether
> > > the "swap should be double RAM" rule still makes sense?
> > 
> > The original rule (still valid, AFAIC) was:
> > 
> > "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.

Can't use all RAM ? Are you sure about that ?

I clearly remember (Linxu and AIX on this one) that if you had more than
double, you would not use all your SWAP. RAM is always accessible ...

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Rodrigo Barbosa
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