Actually I believe it's so in the event of a system crash, the
contents of memory can be dumped to swap space for debug/analysis.

On 8/31/06, Terry McColgan <tmccolgan AT oct DOT ca> wrote:

Actually, the "paging space needs to be 2 times as large as your RAM"-argument 
was to get PhotoShop to run. This was seven years ago but it worked.

Terry McColgan


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Jurjen Oskam
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 2:46 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: TSM Database Reorg


On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:32:44PM -0500, Whitlock, Brett wrote:

        [TSM database reorganization]
> recommended.  Problem is there is another dba up there, who has some TSM
> experience, who says she used to do it painlessly.  Anyone want to weigh
> in?

Again: *why* did the DBA reorg the database? The fact she used to do it
frequently is not really relevant. In our case, I could run EXPIRE
INVENTORY three times a day rather painlessly, but that doesn't make it
*useful*.

As someone once said: "Profile, don't speculate."


(It's starting to remind me of the "paging space needs to be 2 times as
large as your RAM"-argument. You hear it all the time, and when someone
asks why, all you get is: "eeehm, because everybody does it")
--
Jurjen Oskam

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-Gerald