It depends ... For a fully installed Solaris 10 about 4 GB /usr is recommended. Swap space is constrained to RAM. I the past it was recommende to make the Swap space twice the amount of RAM. But nowadays this is not necessary. It depends what you want to do. The kernel is normally using about 200 - 400 MB of RAM on a average used system (on a stressed system 1GB is absolutely possible), the rest can be used by applications. The amount of RAM used by an application is very hard to predict. Most of the memory is usually allocated during runtime (anonymous memory). So the RAM needed by an application will change permanenlty during execution. The ammount of used disk space will also change, because applicatons normally are writing logfiles. This are some reasons why it is nealry impossible to give a general advice how to partition a disk. Thinking about partitioning concerning performance is not so relevant if you have only one disk, because the whole I/O goes anyway through one controller. But you can try to start with the following configuration: /var 2GB <swap> 1GB / 6GB
or if you prefer a dedicated /usr partition /var 2GB /usr 4GB <swap> 1GB / 2GB BR Marcel This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
