Re: RHEL5 Ram and Disk Partiton
"Samer Azmy" <[email protected]>
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You made your point. Thank you for the tip Regards Samer On 10/17/07, Greg Cornell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Samer, > > > > The document you referenced is old. Check the current documentation: > https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-diskpartitioning-x86.html#s2-diskpartrecommend-x86 > > > > The formula give there would indicate 34GB of swap, which is still quite a > lot. > > > > Greg > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > *On Behalf Of *Samer Azmy > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 17, 2007 12:01 PM > *To:* Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com) > *Subject:* Re: [rhn-users] RHEL5 Ram and Disk Partiton > > > > I agree with you Frank, but if we are talking about Standard and > recommendations I will follow Redhat > > Regards > Samer Azmy > > On 10/17/07, *Lamon, Frank III *<[email protected]> wrote: > > Do not waste disk space with 64GB of swap! If you are using 64GB of swap > you need to buy more RAM. Depending on the app the use of swap could > absolutely kill your performance or even app stability (think Oracle). > 8-16GB of swap would be more than enough. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] on behalf of Samer Azmy > Sent: Wed 10/17/2007 2:41 PM > To: Discussions about Red Hat Network ( rhn.redhat.com) > Subject: Re: [rhn-users] RHEL5 Ram and Disk Partiton > > Gentlemen, > > for the Size of the SWAP it should be double the RAM > Quoted from Redhat site > "A swap partition (at least 32MB) - swap partitions are used to support > virtual memory. In other words, data is written to a swap partition when > there is not enough RAM to store the data your system is processing. The > size of your swap partition should be equal to twice your computer's RAM, > or > 32MB, whichever amount is larger." > > Reference Link : > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/s1-diskpartitioning.html > > > Kind Regards > Samer Azmy > > On 10/17/07, Florez, Nestor <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thanks :-) > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] on behalf of Kyle Wilcox > > Sent: Wed 10/17/2007 10:59 AM > > To: Discussions about Red Hat Network ( rhn.redhat.com) > > Subject: Re: [rhn-users] RHEL5 Ram and Disk Partiton > > > > A few of our RAID5 configurations, old and new, for your consideration: > > > > Size Used Free % > > Mount point > > /dev/sda1 190M 89M 92M 50% /boot > > /dev/mapper/vg0-lv0 4.9G 1.7G 3.0G 37% / > > /dev/mapper/vg0-lv1 2.9G 1.8G 1.1G 63% /home > > /dev/mapper/vg0-lv5 2.9G 271M 2.5G 10% /opt > > /dev/mapper/vg0-lv2 2.0G 301M 1.6G 16% /tmp > > /dev/mapper/vg0-lv3 7.7G 4.6G 2.8G 63% /usr > > /dev/mapper/vg0-lv4 5.8G 2.4G 3.2G 43% /var > > /dev/mapper/vg0-lv6 522G 109G 387G 22% /work > > > > Size Used Free % > > Mount point > > /dev/sda1 99M 17M 78M 18% /boot > > /dev/mapper/vg0-lv0 5.7G 3.2G 2.3G 59% / > > /dev/mapper/vg0-lv2 19G 1.4G 17G 8% /home > > /dev/mapper/vg0-lv6 3.8G 72M 3.6G 2% /opt > > /dev/mapper/vg0-lv3 9.5G 151M 8.9G 2% /tmp > > /dev/mapper/vg0-lv4 19G 3.1G 15G 17% /usr > > /dev/mapper/vg0-lv5 9.5G 3.2G 5.9G 36% /var > > /dev/mapper/vg0-lv7 472G 223M 447G 1% /work > > > > Size Used Free > > % Mount point > > /dev/sda6 1012M 406M 555M 43% / > > /dev/sda2 99M 36M 59M 38% /boot > > /dev/sda5 29G 22G 6.3G 78% /home > > /dev/sda7 1012M 33M 928M 4% /tmp > > /dev/sda9 8.2G 4.0G 3.8G 52% /usr > > /dev/sda10 494M 303M 166M 65% /var > > /dev/sda3 385G 283G 83G 78% /work > > > > > > Florez, Nestor wrote: > > > Swap has to be (ram + 2) if greater than 2 Gig > > > > > > I am glad REHL5 can handle 32 gigs of ram > > > > > > I will be using Raid 5 with 5 300 Gig hard drives. > > > My question is more of what is recommended > > > for /, /var, /usr/local originally. > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Nestor :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [email protected] on behalf of Tiago Cruz > > > Sent: Wed 10/17/2007 9:54 AM > > > To: Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com) > > > Subject: Re: [rhn-users] RHEL5 Ram and Disk Partiton > > > > > > 64 GB do Swap is spend of disk. > > > > > > 1 GB or 2 GB it's a good number for 99,9% of situations. > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 18:49 +0200, Samer Azmy wrote: > > >> Yes , It does support 32G of RAM > > >> > > >> the partitions size are up to u and ur applications just make the > SWAP > > >> double the RAM > > >> you may make a big var or opt > > >> > > >> > > >> On 10/17/07, Florez, Nestor <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Can RHEL 5 handle 32 Gig of RAM? > > >> > > >> > > >> Recommendation on partiton sizes for a 300 Gig Hard Drive? > > >> > > >> Thanks, > > >> > > >> Nestor :-) > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> rhn-users mailing list > > >> [email protected] > > >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> ______________________________ > > >> http://geek2live.blogspot.com/ > > >> You pick the level of your suffering yourself - Budha- > > >> -Live Free or Die- > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> rhn-users mailing list > > >> [email protected] > > >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users > > >> > > >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> rhn-users mailing list > > >> [email protected] > > >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users > > > > -- > > > > Kyle Wilcox > > NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office > > 410 Severn Avenue > > Suite 107A > > Annapolis, MD 21403 > > office: (410) 295-3151 > > [email protected] > > > > "It is from the wellspring of our despair and the places > > that we are broken that we come to repair the world." > > - Murray Waas > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rhn-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rhn-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users > > > > > > -- > ______________________________ > http://geek2live.blogspot.com/ > You pick the level of your suffering yourself - Budha- > -Live Free or Die- > > > ----------------------------------------- > This email transmission and any accompanying attachments may > contain CSX privileged and confidential information intended only > for the use of the intended addressee. 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