> My VM guy gave me 128,000 1K blocks of VDSK swap. I feel this is excessive, > especial when you take it out to 7 VM guests. I understand that VM only > uses as much of the allocation as is needed but I was wondering what most > people are defining this as?
It depends on what you are using it for. For small test machines I have one VDISK of 30,000 blocks (actually it is 0,5k blocks, hence VFB-512). For large production machines I run 8 x 4,000,000 VDISK. Of course having Linux swap to VDISK having CP to page to support that will hit performance. If you see a lot of swapping going on all the time you will probably want to increase the Vsize of the machine. In my case the large production Vdisks are to cause rare spikes of huge virtual storage demand. Best regards, Pieter Harder [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +31-73-6837133 / +31-6-47272537 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
