RAM upgrade.

[David Mangani]

My mistake, severe moment of brain lock. I should have said 14% not 40% with 
those named apps open and running. 

Dave


On Wednesday 11 June 2003 05:30 pm, David Mangani wrote:
> Thanks for all the different viewpoints. When first set up and installed (
> RH9 ) my system was configured with 128MB of physical memory. The swap set
> up during install was 256MB ( the ole 2*ram rule ) . I have checked several
> times over the last few days and the swap space has rarely gone over about
> 40% usage, and that was with KDE, Netscape, Kmail and Gaim running at once.
> I suppose that for now, I may just leave it be and see how the system
> behaves. I hate to mess around a whole lot as I have my system running
> nicely right now. I thought perhaps there was some simple way to "adjust"
> the swap space without repartitioning etc. Once again thx for all the
> input.
>
> Dave
>
> On Wednesday 11 June 2003 01:20 pm, Riga, Anthony wrote:
> > Bob
> >
> >  Does that work for Winblows 2000 also? I know  windozes  automatically
> > adjusts to the amout of ram but you can also increase it even more.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Meyer [mailto:meyer_rm at yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 12:58 PM
> > To: nflug at nflug.org
> > Subject: Re: RAM upgrade.
> >
> >
> > Because the people that wrote the sizing methods have either been around
> > long enough to have the '2*mem' formula burned permanently burned into
> > their brains or they have been around an old geek that had it burned in
> > their brains and never questioned the algoritm...  I still do 2*mem out
> > of habit and deference to antiquity :-)
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > --- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> > > If that were true, then why does the install routine just double the
> > > size of the ram for the size of the swap partition? always. I mean I
> > > have had systems with 500mb ram and the install routine wants to make a
> > > swap partition of 1gb. This doesn't sound right to me either, just
> > > noting what I've seen
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 22:32, green_man wrote:
> > > > Mark Musone wrote, On 6/10/03 9:38 PM:
> > > > > 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 dont need additional
> > > > > swap space (arguably you need less swap space)
> > > > >
> > > > > You didnt mention how much swap space you had..my rule normally is:
> > > > >
> > > > > < 128M memory, swap space = 2*memory size
> > > > >
> > > > >> 256M, swap space = memory size
> > > > >
> > > > > -Mark
> > > >
> > > > I was thinking the same thing.
> > > > If you added more RAM to decrease disk thrashing, then increasing the
> > > > swap partition just makes more room to thrash around in.
> > > > Your RAM capacity should be detected by the BIOS during POST.
> > > >
> > > > > -----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
> > > > > <mailto:peter at thecybersource.com>>
> > >
> > > --
> > > Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
> >
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