Solaris 9 9/04 Installation Guide

How the Size of swap Is Determined

If a profile does not specify the size of swap, the JumpStart program determines the size of the swap space, based on the system's physical memory. Table 31–5 shows how the size of swap is determined during a custom JumpStart installation.

Table 31–5 Determining swap Size

Physical Memory (in Mbytes) 

Swap Space (in Mbytes) 

16–64 

32 

64–128 

64 

128–512 

128 

Greater than 512 

256 

The JumpStart program makes the size of swap no more than 20 percent of the disk where swap is located, unless the disk contains free space after laying out the other file systems. If free space exists, the JumpStart program allocates the free space to swap, and if possible, allocates the amount that is shown in Table 31–5.


Note –

Physical memory plus swap space must total a minimum of 32 Mbytes.