Re: [ilugd] Query regarding FC2 Installation
Raj Mathur wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Kunal [snip] Kunal Secondly, I wanted to know about swap space allocation. I Kunal have read that the swap space should normally be twice the Kunal size of RAM. I currently have 256 MB RAM, so i have a swap Kunal partition of 512MB. But I am planning to upgrade to 1 GB Kunal Ram. What swap space should I Allocate Now?? Should it be Kunal 2 GB or less? The ``swap twice size of RAM'' is a rather old concept, dating from the days when RAM was 32 or 64MB, processors were 66MHz and disks transferred at 1MB/s. A very interesting was on the lkml about swap. Kerneltrap has it here Linux: Is Swap Necessary? (http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3202 ) Another interesting discussion on the lkml is about the swapiness of the system. Linux: Tuning Swappiness (http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3000) Through the proc interface anyone needing to adapt kernel swap behavior to their own requirements. To tune, simply echo a value from 0 to 100 onto /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. The higher a number set here, the more the system will swap. 2.6 kernel maintainer Andrew Morton noted that on his own desktop machines he sets swapiness to 100, further explaining: My point is that decreasing the tendency of the kernel to swap stuff out is wrong. You really don't want hundreds of megabytes of BloatyApp's untouched memory floating about in the machine. Get it out on the disk, use the memory for something useful. -- Raj Shekhar, System Administrator Media Web India http://www.netphotograph.com ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
[ilugd] Query regarding FC2 Installation
HI In the recent mails in the mailing list, I have learned about the problem of installing Fedora Core 2 on a dual boot system since it changes the Partition Format from LBA to CHS. The solution suggested by someone was to manually select LBA option for the hard disk from the BIOS. I have Intel D865GBF Original motherboard with Seagate 80GB SATA Hard Disk. In the BIOS settings, if I select the HDD to Auto mode, the BIOS takes LBA Support as Enabled. If I select User Mode, then the BIOS gives me the options to set LBA Mode to either Disabled or Auto What should I do now? Should I keep it to Auto and proceed with the Installation or still wait for Fedora to patch the problem. Secondly, I wanted to know about swap space allocation. I have read that the swap space should normally be twice the size of RAM. I currently have 256 MB RAM, so i have a swap partition of 512MB. But I am planning to upgrade to 1 GB Ram. What swap space should I Allocate Now?? Should it be 2 GB or less? Thanks in advance to everyone who helps me out. Kunal ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
RE: [ilugd] Query regarding FC2 Installation
Hi Kunal, For LBA: Auto option will go. For swap: It is always recomended that swap partition should be double the size of your RAM. It is not mandatory. However presently you can choose 512 MB and latter (when you update your system) you can increase the size of your partition. If this is the case please make a prior planning of your hard disk lay out. Regards, Dev. From: Kunal Singhal (Linux) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Delhi User Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ilugd] Query regarding FC2 Installation Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:18:10 +0530 HI In the recent mails in the mailing list, I have learned about the problem of installing Fedora Core 2 on a dual boot system since it changes the Partition Format from LBA to CHS. The solution suggested by someone was to manually select LBA option for the hard disk from the BIOS. I have Intel D865GBF Original motherboard with Seagate 80GB SATA Hard Disk. In the BIOS settings, if I select the HDD to Auto mode, the BIOS takes LBA Support as Enabled. If I select User Mode, then the BIOS gives me the options to set LBA Mode to either Disabled or Auto What should I do now? Should I keep it to Auto and proceed with the Installation or still wait for Fedora to patch the problem. Secondly, I wanted to know about swap space allocation. I have read that the swap space should normally be twice the size of RAM. I currently have 256 MB RAM, so i have a swap partition of 512MB. But I am planning to upgrade to 1 GB Ram. What swap space should I Allocate Now?? Should it be 2 GB or less? Thanks in advance to everyone who helps me out. Kunal ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ _ Looking for something? Cant find it anywhere? http://go.msnserver.com/IN/50756.asp Log onto baazee.com ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] Query regarding FC2 Installation
Devendra Burman wrote: For swap: It is always recomended that swap partition should be double the size of your RAM. Bunkum. As amount if RAM increases, the swap space I require will _decrease_, not increase. Any questions? For certain values of thumb rules, the amount of real RAM should be at least one-third of the total system memory available. This is quite different from the advice above. Kumal, if this is a desktop, you may require no swap at all. -- Sanjeev ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] Query regarding FC2 Installation
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kunal == Kunal Singhal \(Linux\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kunal [snip] Kunal Secondly, I wanted to know about swap space allocation. I Kunal have read that the swap space should normally be twice the Kunal size of RAM. I currently have 256 MB RAM, so i have a swap Kunal partition of 512MB. But I am planning to upgrade to 1 GB Kunal Ram. What swap space should I Allocate Now?? Should it be Kunal 2 GB or less? The ``swap twice size of RAM'' is a rather old concept, dating from the days when RAM was 32 or 64MB, processors were 66MHz and disks transferred at 1MB/s. Make a lot of swap if you plan to have tons of apps that aren't used very frequently open simultaneously. However, in general with newer systems I find 256 to 512MB of swap more than adequate -- the values under are for a KDE desktop with 4 shells, Xemacs, OOo, Licq, gkrellm, multiple Galeon windows and Gaim permanently open: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:515256 500528 14728 0 28148 180820 - -/+ buffers/cache: 291560 223696 Swap: 265032 103648 161384 Hmm, /why/ do I have Licq open? I can't remember the last time I received an ICQ message... must do something about it, in the fullness of time, when the time is ripe, at the appropriate juncture. Kunal Thanks in advance to everyone who helps me out. Uh, just thanks? You mean you aren't paying? D*mn! Regards, - -- Raju - -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQFAz9iOyWjQ78xo0X8RAvD3AJ4qGZW2G5xwGaYW+8MVMaRVuRZc1ACgk6No Y2u7ifDJhMeeMPCXVGoBaxk= =oZW1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
