On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> can I leave the swapper 'asis' at 512MB ? > > > > swap is used when program memory exceeds the physical memory. It them > > moves some out to disk, this may never happen in your new setup. > > Ken, > > so I can ignore RH docs that tell me ' swap part should be equal to twice > RAM', good.
Good grief! I remember that rule of thumb back in the RedHat 4.2 days when 16Mb RAM was somewhere between "normal" and "a lot"! :) In today's world, it's simply a waste of hard-drive space. I've got a 512Mb workstation (this machine) and 128Mb swap, swap usage is rarely over 20Mb. System has been up for 11 days now, RAM is 316Mb free and swap is 0Mb used; even with KDE 3.1.4 running on a dual-head set-up! (Heheh - try THAT with XP Sir Bill!!) > as far as physical RAM is concerned: is it a 'bad idea' to get a new RAM > chip in addition to existing RAM, versus, getting all new RAM chips ? Adding extra RAM usually isn't a problem. Some motherboards will choke if you mix single and double sided RAM in adjacent slots, others wont care. Similarly, mixing RAM with different speeds can cause problems on some hardware (I have some Intel chipsets from around 1996 which will refuse to recognise PC66 RAM if you add PC100 sticks). Read your motherboard manual and follow their recommendations and you'll be fine :) Good luck. James -- Fortune cookies says: Love thy neighbour, tune thy piano. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
