Re: Paging space...

[Ray Schafer <schafer@TKG.COM>]

Gord Michaels wrote:

> Hello All.
>
> I am running AIX 4.3.2 and Netview 5.1.
>
> I have 2 Gb of memory on my Netview Server. I have allocated 1.5 Mb of
> paging space. What is the practical recommendation for paging space on a
> Netview Server. Should I have 4 Gb of paging space?? That seems like an
> awful lot??

AIX maps memory to paging space, so you need at least as much paging space as
memory.  Rue of thumb is, I believe, Paging space shoud be 1.5 times memory.
However with 2 GB, you could get away with a value closer to 1 times memory
than 1.5 times memory.


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