Mepis recommended. (Live Deb distro for the unwashed) It has a Memtest Kernel boot select: works great! Of my 256M Dimms, 4 of 5 were faulty! regards Doug
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:52 am, Visser, Martin wrote: > I successfully added PC100 to my PC66 (but only after finding that the > maximum stick size supported was 64MB. I had to swap the 128M I bought. > I also had my original RAM go "bad", which resulted in intermittant > crashes. > > I highly recommend running "memtest86" (from a boot floppy or CD) in the > highest mode to make sure you "exercise" your new RAM. It will write and > read with various data patterns that (hopefully) shows up any issues > with contamination between adjacent memory bits. ( See > http://www.memtest86.com/ ) > > > > Martin Visser ,CISSP > Network and Security Consultant > Technology & Infrastructure - Consulting & Integration > HP Services > > 3 Richardson Place > North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113, Australia > Phone *: +61-2-9022-1670 Mobile *: +61-411-254-513 > Fax 7: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail * : martin.visserAThp.com > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Gray > > Sent: Wednesday, 4 February 2004 12:26 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [SLUG] upgrading RAM, what do about swapper partition ? > > > > 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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
