RE: [newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread Marlo Montanaro
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Greg Meyer Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 1:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM Questions On Saturday 08 February 2003 12:44 pm, Russ wrote: > okay, I do have onboard video but I h

Re: [newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 08 February 2003 12:44 pm, Russ wrote: > okay, I do have onboard video but I have an agp video card installed. I > wonder is MD is getting confused? (it did fined my agp card though). > Anyway, next time I install MD I will look at the ram and see what it is > seeing. > > I am experimen

Re: [newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread Charlie
On Saturday 08 February 2003 09:24 am, Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > I understand that the swap partition should be about twice that of your > physical ram. I have 256megs and when I allow MD to partition itself, that > is the size of the swap partition it makes. Shouldn't it be 512? > > I seem to reme

Re: [newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread Russ
okay, I do have onboard video but I have an agp video card installed. I wonder is MD is getting confused? (it did fined my agp card though). Anyway, next time I install MD I will look at the ram and see what it is seeing. I am experimenting with various configurations with MD9 and RedHat 8. There

Re: [newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday February 8 2003 10:24 am, Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > I understand that the swap partition should be about twice that of > your physical ram. I have 256megs and when I allow MD to partition > itself, that is the size of the swap partition it makes. Shouldn't > it be 512? > > I seem to rem

Re: [newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread et
On Saturday 08 February 2003 11:47 am, Gregory K. Meyer, CPA wrote: > On Saturday 08 February 2003 11:38 am, Gregory K. Meyer, CPA wrote: > > On Saturday 08 February 2003 11:24 am, Russ wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I understand that the swap partition should be about twice that of your > > > ph

Re: [newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread CyberCFO
On Saturday 08 February 2003 11:57 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: > At this moment I am recompiling the kernel (for the third times this > week :-( due to a problem with X not starting) and the swap has already > been used by the system even when my computer has 512Mb ram (aroound > 350Mb free acording t

Re: [newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 12:38, Gregory K. Meyer, CPA wrote: > The rule I follow is > > 2x RAM when physical RAM is 128MB or less; > 1x RAM when physical RAM is 256MB but greater than 128; > never a bigger swap than 256MB > > In monitoring, I have never had my swap usage get above 80MB when my phy

Re: [newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread Gregory K. Meyer, CPA
On Saturday 08 February 2003 11:38 am, Gregory K. Meyer, CPA wrote: > On Saturday 08 February 2003 11:24 am, Russ wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I understand that the swap partition should be about twice that of your > > physical ram. I have 256megs and when I allow MD to partition itself, > > that is

Re: [newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread Russ
Thanks for the response. I'll let MD deal with it then. Russ - Original Message - > On Saturday 08 February 2003 11:24 am, Russ wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I understand that the swap partition should be about twice that of your > > physical ram. I have 256megs and when I allow MD to partiti

Re: [newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread Gregory K. Meyer, CPA
On Saturday 08 February 2003 11:24 am, Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > I understand that the swap partition should be about twice that of your > physical ram. I have 256megs and when I allow MD to partition itself, that > is the size of the swap partition it makes. Shouldn't it be 512? > > I seem to reme

[newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread Russ
Hi All, I understand that the swap partition should be about twice that of your physical ram. I have 256megs and when I allow MD to partition itself, that is the size of the swap partition it makes. Shouldn't it be 512? I seem to remember (from previous tries in the past) that there was an issue