Re: RAM increase + swap

2003-08-20 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mittwoch, 20. August 2003 09:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, If I put in additional 256MB RAM module ontop my already 256MB system, don't I need to increase the /swap partition size? Current swap is only at 512 (mem x 2). How do you resize

Re: RAM increase + swap

2003-08-20 Thread Simas Cepaitis
Hello, If I put in additional 256MB RAM module ontop my already 256MB system, don't I need to increase the /swap partition size? Current swap is only at 512 (mem x 2). How do you resize a partition inside a freebsd slice, btw? Thanks in advance. Hello, Resizing a partition is a bit

Re: RAM increase + swap

2003-08-20 Thread Richard Tobin
If I put in additional 256MB RAM module ontop my already 256MB system, don't I need to increase the /swap partition size? No. In fact you will need less swap space now. The 2xRAM rule-of-thumb makes very little sense. -- Richard ___ [EMAIL

Re: RAM increase + swap

2003-08-20 Thread Vulpes Velox
I personally have no dedicate swap on the disk. I use vnconfig to mount a large file for swap on my system. On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:57:11 +0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, If I put in additional 256MB RAM module ontop my already 256MB system, don't I need to increase the /swap partition