Re: swapfile and more ram
On Sat, 1 May 1999, add|ct|on wrote: my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have 16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram without messing with partitions again? i'm a relative newbie to this so if you reply please speak in simple terms g. thanks! Hi I refer you to Oliver Elphick's response about disk repartitioning for more swap. If you *need* more swap space, you can create a swap file. It will be slower than a swap partition (you are running things through the file system) but it works. It got me out of the woods. Actually, man mkwap will tell you all you need to know. Write me back if you need to. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I'm hoping this is all of the above!)
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David B.Teague wrote: On Sat, 1 May 1999, add|ct|on wrote: my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have 16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram without messing with partitions again? i'm a relative newbie to this so if you reply please speak in simple terms g. thanks! Hi I refer you to Oliver Elphick's response about disk repartitioning for more swap. If you *need* more swap space, you can create a swap file. It will be slower than a swap partition (you are running things through the file system) but it works. It got me out of the woods. Actually, man mkwap will tell you all you need to know. Write me back if you need to. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I'm hoping this is all of the above!) thank you for your help, david. it's appreciated, and was by for the most useful response i received. if the man confuses me i'll be sure to drop another line, thanks.
swapfile and more ram
my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have 16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram without messing with partitions again? i'm a relative newbie to this so if you reply please speak in simple terms g. thanks!
Re: swapfile and more ram
my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have 16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram without messing with partitions again? i'm a relative newbie to this so if you reply please speak in simple terms g. thanks! Why resize? When you going to be moving to 32M ram, linux will still be making trips to swap. I'm running 32M physical, and have about 90M of swap. My base X system (just X, no other applications running in it), goes for 20M alone( 1280x1024 at 16bpp). When I use xemacs with it, I can still fit in 32M, but netscape+xemacs uses up about 15M of swap space on top of 32M physical ram. ANyway, bottom line is, you dont need to resize your swap. That memory will get used. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv --Little things for Linux.
Re: swapfile and more ram
add|ct|on wrote: my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have 16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram without messing with partitions again? i'm a relative newbie to this so if you reply please speak in simple terms g. thanks! The short answer is, No. You cannot extend your swap partition if your disk is already fully partitioned. If you have any free space, you can create an additional swap partition. It seems unlikely, however, that you will need any additional swap space. The purpose of swap space is to extend your memory space. If you try to run a program that needs more RAM than there is available, older pages will get swapped out into your swap space. It isn't used at all until it is needed; if you run the same programs after your RAM upgrade, your swap requirement should decrease, not increase. At the momemt, you have an effective 48Mb available to running programs; if the demand exceeds that, you will get a program aborting for lack of memory. After your upgrade, you will have 64-80Mb available. If you are increasing your memory because you are going to have more programs running simultaneously, there may indeed be a case for increasing your swap space. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Matthew 6:14,15
