Re: added memory, should I increase swap?

2001-11-19 Thread dman
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 08:59:01PM -0500, Peter Christensen wrote: | I started with Debian 2.1 on my Pentium 200 MHz with 32 MB of memory, | then upgraded with apt-get to Potato. I recently replaced the single 32 | MB SDRAM with two 128 MB SDRAMs. | | When I installed Debian I created a 32MB s

Re: added memory, should I increase swap?

2001-11-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 08:59:01PM -0500, Peter Christensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I started with Debian 2.1 on my Pentium 200 MHz with 32 MB of memory, > then upgraded with apt-get to Potato. I recently replaced the single > 32 MB SDRAM with two 128 MB SDRAMs. > > When I installed Debian

Re: added memory, should I increase swap?

2001-11-19 Thread Dave Carrigan
Peter Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Should I change my swap partition to 256MB, to match the new memory? It depends on your kernel. For 2.2, no. For 2.4.x, x >= 0 && x < 10, maybe. For 2.4.x, x >= 10, no. For the 2.4.x-ac kernels, yes, although I believe that newer -ac kernels are goi

Re: added memory, should I increase swap?

2001-11-19 Thread Frank Zimmermann
I started with Debian 2.1 on my Pentium 200 MHz with 32 MB of memory, then upgraded with apt-get to Potato. I recently replaced the single 32 MB SDRAM with two 128 MB SDRAMs. When I installed Debian I created a 32MB swap to match the size of the memory. Should I now increase the size of the sw

Re: added memory, should I increase swap?

2001-11-18 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Peter Christensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [08 18:01]: > So, two questions: > > Should I change my swap partition to 256MB, to match the new memory? The answer to this question really depends more on your kernel selection and typical load; less on Debian's "requirements." Will you be running a 2

Re: added memory, should I increase swap?

2001-11-18 Thread Erik Steffl
Peter Christensen wrote: > > I started with Debian 2.1 on my Pentium 200 MHz with 32 MB of memory, > then upgraded with apt-get to Potato. I recently replaced the single 32 > MB SDRAM with two 128 MB SDRAMs. > > When I installed Debian I created a 32MB swap to match the size of the > memory. Sh

added memory, should I increase swap?

2001-11-18 Thread Peter Christensen
I started with Debian 2.1 on my Pentium 200 MHz with 32 MB of memory, then upgraded with apt-get to Potato. I recently replaced the single 32 MB SDRAM with two 128 MB SDRAMs. When I installed Debian I created a 32MB swap to match the size of the memory. Should I now increase the size of the