Re: [newbie] Adding more ram
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:41:52 -0600 Dennis Myers wrote: You should have no problems Dan, the OS will see it without you doing a thing. Did for me. HTH Thanks Dennis. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Fri Jan 30 08:24:54 EST 2004 08:24:55 up 19:51, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.15, 0.12 ( Marry in haste and everyone starts ) ( counting the months. ) o ^__^ o (OO)\___ (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adding more ram
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 29 January 2004 6:28 am, Dan Gordon wrote: In the next couple of weeks i will be adding more ram to my computer. Will mandrake find it or is there something i will have to do? TIA Regards, Dan Gordon In the next couple of weeks I'll have ice cream for dessert. Will my taste buds identify chocolate? You can't expect anyone to give an unequivocal answer to that question or yours now can you? Depending on what motherboard, what processor(s), what kernel, what kind of RAM; the answer is probably yes. However; if you add enough memory to exceed the (roughly) 850 MB usable limit with a single processor system, and a stock kernel, you won't be able to use it all. Any amount of memory that requires having hi-mem (above that limit) compiled into the kernel will actually be slower than an identical system with slightly less memory. Long and short answer is yes unless you use boot flags (lilo append=* line) to specify how much memory you're supposed to have. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-26mdk 09:54:16 up 1 day, 21:22, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.17, 0.13 Shannon's Observation: Nothing is so frustrating as a bad situation that is beginning to improve. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAGTycZqvqlrLPr5YRAkl6AJ98CRjVMgaqZTCXn5ai8LSJZ7C3aACghFm2 Yp+RzaJYCi1as9hooyANk30= =LObq -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adding more ram
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:02:20 -0700 Charlie Mahan wrote: In the next couple of weeks I'll have ice cream for dessert. Will my taste buds identify chocolate? LOL You can't expect anyone to give an unequivocal answer to that question or yours now can you? I was not asking for an unequivocal answer, just if the os would or should see any extra added ram? Depending on what motherboard, what processor(s), what kernel, what kind of RAM; the answer is probably yes. However; if you add enough memory to exceed the (roughly) 850 MB usable limit with a single processor system, and a stock kernel, you won't be able to use it all. Any amount of memory that requires having hi-mem (above that limit) compiled into the kernel will actually be slower than an identical system with slightly less memory. Only going from 256 to 512 MB. I don't think my MB (asus CUV4X-C) via vt82c694 chipset, processor intel (pIII 800) should be a problem, the ram i will have to check but it is a single 168 pin dimm not sure if its 64 or 73 bit. Long and short answer is yes unless you use boot flags (lilo append=* line) to specify how much memory you're supposed to have. No no flags. Thanks for your help :-) Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Jan 29 12:42:54 EST 2004 12:42:54 up 9 min, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.10, 0.08 ( It usually takes more than three weeks ) ( to prepare a good impromptu speech. -- ) ( Mark Twain ) o ^__^ o (OO)\___ (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adding more ram
On Thursday 29 January 2004 12:00 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:02:20 -0700 Charlie Mahan wrote: In the next couple of weeks I'll have ice cream for dessert. Will my taste buds identify chocolate? LOL You can't expect anyone to give an unequivocal answer to that question or yours now can you? I was not asking for an unequivocal answer, just if the os would or should see any extra added ram? Depending on what motherboard, what processor(s), what kernel, what kind of RAM; the answer is probably yes. However; if you add enough memory to exceed the (roughly) 850 MB usable limit with a single processor system, and a stock kernel, you won't be able to use it all. Any amount of memory that requires having hi-mem (above that limit) compiled into the kernel will actually be slower than an identical system with slightly less memory. Only going from 256 to 512 MB. I don't think my MB (asus CUV4X-C) via vt82c694 chipset, processor intel (pIII 800) should be a problem, the ram i will have to check but it is a single 168 pin dimm not sure if its 64 or 73 bit. Long and short answer is yes unless you use boot flags (lilo append=* line) to specify how much memory you're supposed to have. No no flags. Thanks for your help :-) Regards, Dan Gordon You should have no problems Dan, the OS will see it without you doing a thing. Did for me. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adding more RAM
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Jason Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have always heard the swap partition should be twice the size of the RAM, so here's my question. I'm going to add 64 MB to a system with a 128 MB swap and the initial 64 MB. Do I have to resize my swap, and if so what can I use to do it on the fly? Also, will I have to change any other system files? Thanks for any help. The 2:1 swap:ram ratio is just a rough rule of thumb. 128MB of each will be fine. You do not need to increase the swap size. -- Richard Lamont [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stonix.demon.co.uk/
RE: [newbie] Adding more RAM
This is straight from the 'Linux-Mandrake Installation Guide', pg. 23 "In Linux, partitions of type swap cannot be bigger than 128 MB. If you wish to use more swap, you should create several. Too much space allocated to swap will always be useless. In general, it is considered that for a RAM memory of less than 64MB, you should have 128MB of swap. For RAM memory greater than 64MB, 80MB of swap is suficient." I would add my own caveat to that. If you are planning on having a lot of users and/or servers running, the swap may become important and you may want a second swap partition. I did say a lot though. I am running with 128MB of RAM and 128MB swap and I have seldom, if ever, seen the swap used. It really only becomes necessary when you have a large number of processes competing for the available memory and their load is sufficient to require large amounts of paging in and out. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Peterson Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 10:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Adding more RAM I have always heard the swap partition should be twice the size of the RAM, so here's my question. I'm going to add 64 MB to a system with a 128 MB swap and the initial 64 MB. Do I have to resize my swap, and if so what can I use to do it on the fly? Also, will I have to change any other system files? Thanks for any help. Jason Peterson
RE: [newbie] Adding more RAM
128 MB swap should be PLENTY for anything a newbie could ever want to run. If you get into something heavier then chances are you'll be reinstalling anyway and then you might consider a larger file. If you REALLY want to change it now people have suggested Partition Magic. Regards, Joseph Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Company Cleveland, OH -Original Message- From: Jason Peterson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 1:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Adding more RAM I have always heard the swap partition should be twice the size of the RAM, so here's my question. I'm going to add 64 MB to a system with a 128 MB swap and the initial 64 MB. Do I have to resize my swap, and if so what can I use to do it on the fly? Also, will I have to change any other system files? Thanks for any help. Jason Peterson application/ms-tnef
Re: [newbie] Adding more RAM
You don't need to change the swap partition size, with 128mb you got more than enough. You don't have to change any system file either El vie, 13 ago 1999, escribiste: I have always heard the swap partition should be twice the size of the RAM, so here's my question. I'm going to add 64 MB to a system with a 128 MB swap and the initial 64 MB. Do I have to resize my swap, and if so what can I use to do it on the fly? Also, will I have to change any other system files? Thanks for any help. Jason Peterson
