Detlef Drewanz wrote: > Thanks James, > Hmm interestingly. I just installed OpenSolaris on a new systems and yes > there I have dump and swap. I have to find out why in my vbox > installation dump and swap has not been created. Maybe the image was > with 6 GB too small ... > > Detlef Since Indiana needs about 3GB in itself plus whatever you add and initial snapshots, it's reasonable to go with whatever size would allow you to maintain about 30% of your total capacity, adjusting for potential build upgrade differences and other situations. A solid 20GB is recommended on a bare metal system, especially if you've installed OpenOffice.org and developer libraries/tools, but 16GB should be the bare minimum even if you have control over making sure redundant snapshots don't exist.
Swap is variable, and depends on host physical ram and total volume size but should be no less than 50% of your total physical memory configuration in practice. Dump devices may require enough space to house a full instance of a running kernel, including some of the dumped memory in addition. Let's say you have 4GB of software, 2GB host memory, 1GB swap, and need 1GB of space for dumps, then you'd need 7GB, but since Indiana revolves around ZFS backups, there should be room for as much as 3x the software on top. James _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
