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Installation (Compaq Tru64 UNIX)
6–8 PowerStorm 300 AGP and 300/350 PCI Graphics Controllers
The installation is now completed.
6.4 Configuration Recommendations
Compaq recommends performing the following configuration operations before you use
PowerStorm 300/350 UNIX Graphics Support:
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Partitioning Drives
You should define a minimum of 600 MB pages of swap.
For any system, you should divide swap space equally across two or more drives. No
swap partition should be smaller than 100 MB pages.
Example 1:
A system with two drives could be configured to contain the following:
drive1: operating system and swap1
drive2: 3D client application, user data, and swap2
Example 2:
A system with three disks could be configured to contain the following:
drive1: operating system and swap1
drive2: 3D client application, user data, and swap2
drive3: user model data
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Configuring Physical Memory (RAM)
You should configure enough physical memory for the average workload to reduce
paging activity to zero.
The minimum memory requirements are determined by the size of the data and the
application operations. On Tru64 UNIX systems, most three-dimensional graphics
applications require an absolute minimum of 128 MB.
6.4.1 Tuning Techniques
When tuning a Tru64 UNIX system, the most important goals are to minimize paging and
to use the physical memory as efficiently as possible. If your system has too little physical
memory, these goals are extremely difficult to attain.
The recommended method for configuring PowerStorm 300/350 UNIX Graphics Support
on Tru64 UNIX Version 4.0E or 4.0F is to use the /sbin/sysconfig utility. First, you
should determine which subsystems are configured:
# sysconfig -s