{"id":588,"date":"2014-01-28T15:37:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T08:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.trichev.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2017-08-10T09:28:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T02:28:21","slug":"swap-requirements-rhel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trichev.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/28\/swap-requirements-rhel\/","title":{"rendered":"Swap requirements (RHEL)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RHEL5 Deployment Guide<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/access.redhat.com\/site\/documentation\/en-US\/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux\/5\/html\/Deployment_Guide\/ch-swapspace.html<\/p>\n<p>RHEL6 Installation Guide<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/access.redhat.com\/site\/documentation\/en-US\/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux\/6\/html\/Installation_Guide\/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.html<\/p>\n<p>Oracle DB 10<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/docs.oracle.com\/cd\/B19306_01\/install.102\/b15660\/pre_install.htm<\/p>\n<p>Oracle DB 11<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/docs.oracle.com\/cd\/E11882_01\/install.112\/e24321\/pre_install.htm#LADBI1097<\/p>\n<p>\u0411\u0414:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oracle\u00ae Database Installation Guide 10g Release 2 (10.2) for Linux x86:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At least 1024 MB of physical RAM<\/li>\n<li>The following table describes the relationship between installed RAM and the configured swap space requirement.\n<div>\n<table dir=\"ltr\" title=\"swap\" summary=\"Swap space requirements\" width=\"100%\" border=\"1\" rules=\"groups\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n<thead>\n<tr align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<th id=\"r1c1-t4\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\">RAM<\/th>\n<th id=\"r1c2-t4\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\">Swap Space<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<td id=\"r2c1-t4\" headers=\"r1c1-t4\" align=\"left\">Between 1024 MB and 2048 MB<\/td>\n<td headers=\"r2c1-t4 r1c2-t4\" align=\"left\">1.5 times the size of RAM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<td id=\"r3c1-t4\" headers=\"r1c1-t4\" align=\"left\">Between 2049 MB and 8192 MB<\/td>\n<td headers=\"r3c1-t4 r1c2-t4\" align=\"left\">Equal to the size of RAM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<td id=\"r4c1-t4\" headers=\"r1c1-t4\" align=\"left\">More than 8192 MB<\/td>\n<td headers=\"r4c1-t4 r1c2-t4\" align=\"left\">0.75 times the size of RAM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Oracle\u00ae Database Installation Guide 11g Release 2 (11.2) for Linux:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following are the memory requirements for installing Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2):<\/p>\n<p>Minimum: 1 GB of RAM<\/p>\n<p>Recommended: 2 GB of RAM or more<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To determine the RAM size, enter the following command:\n<pre># grep MemTotal \/proc\/meminfo<\/pre>\n<p>If the size of the RAM is less than the required size, then you must install more memory before continuing.<\/li>\n<li>The following table describes the relationship between the installed RAM and the configured swap space recommendation:\n<div>\n<p>Note:<\/p>\n<p>On Linux, the HugePages feature allocates non-swappable memory for large page tables using memory-mapped files. If you enable HugePages, then you should deduct the memory allocated to HugePages from the available RAM before calculating swap space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<table dir=\"ltr\" title=\"swap\" summary=\"Swap space requirements\" width=\"100%\" border=\"1\" rules=\"groups\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n<col width=\"48%\" \/>\n<col width=\"*\" \/>\n<thead>\n<tr align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<th id=\"r1c1-t13\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\">RAM<\/th>\n<th id=\"r1c2-t13\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\">Swap Space<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<td id=\"r2c1-t13\" headers=\"r1c1-t13\" align=\"left\">Between 1 GB and 2 GB<\/td>\n<td headers=\"r2c1-t13 r1c2-t13\" align=\"left\">1.5 times the size of the RAM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<td id=\"r3c1-t13\" headers=\"r1c1-t13\" align=\"left\">Between 2 GB and 16 GB<\/td>\n<td headers=\"r3c1-t13 r1c2-t13\" align=\"left\">Equal to the size of the RAM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<td id=\"r4c1-t13\" headers=\"r1c1-t13\" align=\"left\">More than 16 GB<\/td>\n<td headers=\"r4c1-t13 r1c2-t13\" align=\"left\">16 GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>RHEL5 Deployment Guide:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Table\u00a07.1.\u00a0Recommended System Swap Space<\/strong><\/p>\n<table summary=\"Recommended System Swap Space\">\n<col width=\"50%\" align=\"left\" \/>\n<col width=\"50%\" align=\"left\" \/>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th align=\"left\">Amount of RAM in the System<\/th>\n<th align=\"left\">Recommended Amount of Swap Space<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">4GB of RAM or less<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">a minimum of 2GB of swap space<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">4GB to 16GB of RAM<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">a minimum of 4GB of swap space<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">16GB to 64GB of RAM<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">a minimum of 8GB of swap space<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">64GB to 256GB of RAM<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">a minimum of 16GB of swap space<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">256GB to 512GB of RAM<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">a minimum of 32GB of swap space<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>RHEL6 Installation Guide:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Table\u00a09.2.\u00a0Recommended System Swap Space<\/strong><\/p>\n<table summary=\"Recommended System Swap Space\">\n<col width=\"33%\" align=\"left\" \/>\n<col width=\"33%\" align=\"left\" \/>\n<col width=\"33%\" align=\"left\" \/>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th align=\"left\">Amount of RAM in the system<\/th>\n<th align=\"left\">Recommended swap space<\/th>\n<th align=\"left\">Recommended swap space if allowing for hibernation<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">\u2a7d\u00a02GB<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">2 times the amount of RAM<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">3 times the amount of RAM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">&gt;\u00a02GB \u2013 8GB<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Equal to the amount of RAM<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">2 times the amount of RAM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">&gt;\u00a08GB \u2013 64GB<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">0.5 times the amount of RAM<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">1.5 times the amount of RAM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">&gt;\u00a064GB<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">4GB of swap space<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">No extra space needed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RHEL5 Deployment Guide https:\/\/access.redhat.com\/site\/documentation\/en-US\/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux\/5\/html\/Deployment_Guide\/ch-swapspace.html RHEL6 Installation Guide https:\/\/access.redhat.com\/site\/documentation\/en-US\/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux\/6\/html\/Installation_Guide\/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.html Oracle DB 10 http:\/\/docs.oracle.com\/cd\/B19306_01\/install.102\/b15660\/pre_install.htm Oracle DB 11 http:\/\/docs.oracle.com\/cd\/E11882_01\/install.112\/e24321\/pre_install.htm#LADBI1097 \u0411\u0414: Oracle\u00ae Database Installation Guide 10g Release 2 (10.2) for Linux x86: At least 1024 MB of physical RAM The following table describes the relationship between installed RAM and the configured swap space requirement. 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