[rhn-users] RHEL5 Ram and Disk Partiton

[Kyle Wilcox]

A few of our RAID5 configurations, old and new, for your consideration:

					Size     Used     Free   %     Mount point
/dev/sda1            		190M	89M   	92M   50% 	/boot
/dev/mapper/vg0-lv0   4.9G  	1.7G  	3.0G  37% 	/
/dev/mapper/vg0-lv1   2.9G  	1.8G  	1.1G   63% 	 /home
/dev/mapper/vg0-lv5   2.9G  	271M  2.5G   10% 	/opt
/dev/mapper/vg0-lv2   2.0G  	301M  1.6G   16%	/tmp
/dev/mapper/vg0-lv3   7.7G  	4.6G  	2.8G  63%	/usr
/dev/mapper/vg0-lv4   5.8G  	2.4G  	3.2G  43%	/var
/dev/mapper/vg0-lv6   522G     109G  387G  22%      /work

					Size      Used      Free    %     Mount point
/dev/sda1              		  99M    17M   	   78M  18%	 /boot
/dev/mapper/vg0-lv0     5.7G   3.2G      2.3G  59%	/
/dev/mapper/vg0-lv2     19G    1.4G       17G   8%	 /home
/dev/mapper/vg0-lv6     3.8G   72M      3.6G   2%	/opt
/dev/mapper/vg0-lv3     9.5G   151M     8.9G   2%	/tmp
/dev/mapper/vg0-lv4      19G   3.1G       15G  17%	/usr
/dev/mapper/vg0-lv5     9.5G   3.2G      5.9G  36%	/var
/dev/mapper/vg0-lv7   472G   223M   447G   1%	    /work

					   Size      Used      Free    %       Mount point
/dev/sda6            	  	 1012M  406M     555M   43%   /
/dev/sda2             		   99M     36M       59M    38%   /boot
/dev/sda5              		   29G      22G      6.3G    78%   /home
/dev/sda7            		1012M    33M     928M    4%    /tmp
/dev/sda9            		  8.2G     4.0G     3.8G    52%   /usr
/dev/sda10          		494M   303M    166M    65%   /var
/dev/sda3            		 385G    283G      83G    78%   /work


Florez, Nestor wrote:
> Swap has to be (ram + 2) if greater than 2 Gig
> 
> I am glad REHL5 can handle 32 gigs of ram
> 
> I will be using Raid 5 with 5 300 Gig hard drives.
> My question is more of what is recommended
> for /, /var, /usr/local originally.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nestor :-)
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Tiago Cruz
> Sent: Wed 10/17/2007 9:54 AM
> To: Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com)
> Subject: Re: [rhn-users] RHEL5 Ram and Disk Partiton
>  
> 64 GB do Swap is spend of disk.
> 
> 1 GB or 2 GB it's a good number for 99,9% of situations.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 18:49 +0200, Samer Azmy wrote:
>> Yes , It does support 32G of RAM
>>
>> the partitions size are up to u and ur applications just make the SWAP
>> double the RAM
>> you may make a big var or opt
>>
>>
>> On 10/17/07, Florez, Nestor <NFlorez at sdcwa.org> wrote:
>>         Can RHEL 5 handle 32 Gig of RAM?
>>         
>>         
>>         Recommendation on partiton sizes for a 300 Gig Hard Drive?
>>         
>>         Thanks,
>>         
>>         Nestor :-)
>>         
>>         
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