After another crash last night I pulled out the third stick, so far so good, but I would like to do a mem test.
One problem with this, I have NO windoze boxes, and have not for about 3 years now. can this be done with dd and if so what is the comand? TIA, John On Sunday 27 January 2002 11:27, you wrote: > With 768 meg or RAM, you'll be hard pushed to use any swap at all I'd have > thought! > > Before you go off fidling with partitions, I'd fire up your installation > disk in windows and use RAWWRITE to dump the MEMTEST image to a floppy > disk. Reboot with the floppy in and MEMTEST will boot automatically. Let it > test your memory (it'll take a while with 768 meg!). Make sure you don't > have some flaky memory - it could cause the problem you are describing. > > As for seeing all of you memory in Use under Linux, this is perfectly > normal, and it a GOOD thing - Linux uses as much memory as it can to cache > stuff, to improve response time. Unused memory is wasted memory in Unix > parlance. If any programs request memory which is being used for buffering > or cache, then it will be released by the kernel and given to the requsting > task. > > I suspect you'll find that more swap has no effect on your "lock-up's" but > by all means try - it's always good experience, providing you don't lose > anything! > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Cichy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 1:38 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [newbie] resizing partitions > > > > Well, I am having a problem with it locking up, and I want to make sure > > it is > > not something in the original config. Using the old train of thought I > > configured a 128mg swap. I have 768mg real memory. If I do a 'free -m' I > > will > > see very little use of the swap (1-8megs) but real stays close to 750mg, > > as > > the system aproches 768 the swap does not increase, but if I go over 768 > > everything locks up. So I figure the first thing I need to do is bring > > the > > swap up to what everyone is recomending, I have a 40gig and and a 60gig > > drive > > in the box, so there is no reason why I should not at least try the > > 'double > > the ram idea'. > > > > Actually I was hoping that diskdrake would acomplish this because I was > > able > > to resize my son's windoze partition when he wanted to play with linux > > and I > > installed mandrake. Funny, this is the first time I have found a linux > > tool > > that will do to windoze what it won't do for itself <GRIN>. > > > > John > > > > On Saturday 26 January 2002 18:23, you wrote: > > > I believe GnuPartEd can non-destructively resize partitions, but make > > > > sure > > > > > you have any important data backed up first, just in case. > > > > > > What makes you think you need to resize your swap partition anyway? > > > Does your machine come close to utilising all of your existing swap > > > space > > > > now? > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: John Cichy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 10:49 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: [newbie] resizing partitions > > > > > > Hello, > > > After following the swap partition thread, I have realized that I > > > should > > > increase my swap partition, how can I do this without distroying > > > data? I do > > > not want to use partition magic. > > > > > > TIA, > > > John > > > << File: message.footer >> > > > > > > > > > ********************************************************************** > > > This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named > > > recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email > > > the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or > > > take/retain/distribute any copies. > > > ********************************************************************** > > > > > > > > > Norwich Union Life & Pensions Limited > > > Registered Office 2 Rougier Street > > > York YO90 1UU > > > Registered in England Number 3253947 > > > A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group > > > which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. > > > Member of the Association of British Insurers. > > > > > > For further Enquires 01603 622200 > > > > << File: message.footer >> > > ********************************************************************** > This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named > recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email > the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or > take/retain/distribute any copies. > ********************************************************************** > > > Norwich Union Life & Pensions Limited > Registered Office 2 Rougier Street > York YO90 1UU > Registered in England Number 3253947 > A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group > which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. > Member of the Association of British Insurers. > > For further Enquires 01603 622200
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