View Single Post

   
  #5 (permalink)  
Old 01-16-2008, 08:38 PM
Don Morris
 
Posts: n/a
Default Re: Increasing swap space on HP B.11.11 machine.

Florian Anwander wrote:
> Hi
>
>
>> Can u add to the information by suggesting the optimal value of
>> maxswapchunks?

>
> As I wrote: 1 swapchunk corresponds to 2MB swap.


Only with the default value of swchunk (2048).

The formula is:
System Swap = maxswapchunks * swchunk * 1k

maxswapchunks has an upper bound of 16384, so you need to account
for that if you want to go above 32Gb of swap and raise swchunk.

http://docs.hp.com/en/TKP-90202/re38.html

Don

> So it depends on how large your swap shall be. If you will have 1
> gigabyte swap, you have to set this parameter to 512

Reply With Quote