Thanks - I ended up having 4 swap disks (1 500M dasd, one 1G vdisk and 2 2G 
vdisks - total of 5.5G). I just hope that it's enough. Time will tell.

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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sam 
Amsavelu
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2013 12:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: oracle question

My suggestion would be if you are considering 4 GB of swap space, follow a 
layered approach. Define two virtual disks, one for 256 MB and the next one to 
be for 512 MB and a third lower priority swap disk (physical disk) for the 
remaining required size. 4GB of swap as virtual disk alone is excessive. And by 
monitoring the swap disk usages, swap spilling from
vdisk1 to vdisk2 to physical disk is the time to validate your Linux memory 
requirements for that server.

Sam Amsavelu
System z Linux Oracle Solutions Pre-sales Support, IBM
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