RAM upgrade.

[Joshua Altemoos]

i have 128 psycial MDK made 428 of swap hardly use teh swap

Quoting Robert Dege <rdege at cse.Buffalo.EDU>:

> 
> 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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> 
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