RAM upgrade.

[Robert Dege]

My rule of thumb is to run top & see how much swap the system is actually
using.  I personally have never had a linux system use more than 120MB of
swap.  At work, (256MB, K6 450MHz system) I can run OpenOffice, Phoenix,
gaim, 4+ xterms, KDE 3.1 simultaneously & be only hitting around 70-80MB
of swap.

It's a judgment call I suppose.

-Rob

> You can actually make a swap file and use that as additional swap space,
> thereby eliminating the need for adding another partition..
>
> However if you added more memory, you really don't need additional swap
> space (arguably you need less swap space)
> You didn't mention how much swap space you had..my rule normally is:
>
> < 128M memory, swap space = 2*memory size
>
> > 256M, swap space = memory size
>
> -Mark
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
> Cyber Source
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 9:27 PM
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: Re: RAM upgrade.
>
> It won't do it automatically and you will have to repartition the hard
> drive to make a larger partition for it to use, you will then need to
> run mkswapon command. You could, if you have access to them ( i have
> some here in the shop) use a small say 500mb disk drive and use it
> entirely for the swap partition ( you will need to make the change in
> your /etc/fstab file, as well as running the mkswapon command after
> On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 20:44, David Mangani wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  I recently upgraded the ram in my desktop from 128MB to 256MB ( much
> less
> disk thrashing ). I am Running RH9 and was simply wondering, does RH
> pick up
> this change and adjust the swap size or do I need to do that manually
> somehow.
>
> TIA
> Dave
>
> --
> Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
>
>



Dege

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