[comp.unix.sysv386] ISC SWAP QUESTION

stlouis@unixg.ubc.ca (Phill St. Louis) (04/11/91)

I would like to know what those Interactive users with TCP/IP and
NFS are using for their swap partitions.

What happens when an Interactive Unix system does not have enough
swap space?   Will there be PANICS?  Will processes mysteriously
die?  We are running Oracle and each of the four Oracle processes 
are taking turns issuing the message "process terminated with error".

We are using Interactive UNIX 2.2, running TCP/IP, NFS, ORACLE,
a 386 machine at 33MHz and 12MB of RAM.  The system was configured
with only 11.68MB of swap.  

I would recommend 20MB of swap for this system.  I would like to
know what other people are using for their swap partition and 
what their configuration is. 

Has anyone else had this problem with Oracle processes?  Am I
wrong to say that this is a swap problem?

Any feedback would be much appreciated.

Phill St. Louis
University of British Columbia

src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) (04/14/91)

stlouis@unixg.ubc.ca (Phill St. Louis) writes:
>I would recommend 20MB of swap for this system.  I would like to
>know what other people are using for their swap partition and 
>what their configuration is. 

i'd rather use 30MB, since the cost per MB is around $4 with
todays disks. put on another disk and config a swap partition
on it. use swap -a <parameters> to add the swap space to
the system. that way you also get some load balancing for swapping.
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