How much swap space do I need for a T2000 with 32GB of ram? At one time the rule was 2x's memory but that is an entire drive with a system with 32GB of memory!
Sorry if this is a dumb question but several searches have not turned up anything solid.
Thank you,
BTW these will be DSEE 6.0 Directory Servers.
You need as much swap as you need....
That is dependent on your workload, not the machine configuration. In many performance environments, almost no space on disk is required. I usually configure 2G of backing store unless there's a special reason that we need more.
Some machines use applications that reserve (but do not use) significant amounts of memory. Oracle does that a lot, and some forking applications (Apache in some instances) do the same. In that case, a larger than normal paging space can let you run more applications without a performance hit.
If crash dumps go to your swap slice, then you might have to increase it if your crashes generate more data than that. By default only kernel space is dumped, and even that is compressed. So you might not need much.
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Darren
