in the olden days, when we didn't have much memory in our solaris boxes, and because we logged files to /tmp and /var/run we used to make swap be at least twice as much as memory ... not that you would actually want to "swap" out that much :)
I know with KVM in Illumos that when it pre-allocates memory, it also pre-allocates an equivalent amount of swap, which caused me some problems when I only had 4Gb of swap and 8Gb of ram ... I was getting "out of memory" errors when I went over 4Gb. Jon On 28 August 2013 23:06, Jake Goerzen <jakegoer...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > What are the minimum swap space requirements to use openindiana as a > VirtualBox host? > > According to the wiki documentation (http://wiki.openindiana.org/** > oi/7.2+VirtualBox <http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/7.2+VirtualBox>) in > order to *run* VirtualBox VMs, available on-disk swap space is required > (sized as the VM's RAM size), even if the swap space is not really actively > used. > > It appears the OI installer defaults the swap to 50% RAM size during > install. Seems like setting swap size at 100% RAM size is a safer bet for > a Virtualbox host. What have others set swap at, particularly on systems > with lots of RAM hosting many VirtualBox VM's? > > Thanks, > /Jake > ______________________________**_________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@**openindiana.org<OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org> > http://openindiana.org/**mailman/listinfo/openindiana-**discuss<http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss> > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
