-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 ... []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGE8O5pdyWzQ5b5ckRAsvCAJ9IJxW2ejE/DfFFkA+mDEq/+Si+SwCgvpmt Tt0k0RfwnFaGN7tBlpbSt9k= =Js97 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----