Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

["Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>]

On Montag, 21. Januar 2008, Michael Higgins wrote:
> So, I just got 2 GB of RAM in the mail. Whoo hoo.
>
> Before I pop these in, soliciting any thoughts about the following:
>
> zcat /proc/config.gz |grep MEM
> CONFIG_SHMEM=y
> # CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set
> # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set
> CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
> # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
> CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
> CONFIG_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y
> CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL=y
> # CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL is not set
> # CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_MANUAL is not set
> CONFIG_FLATMEM=y
> CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP=y
> # CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_STATIC is not set
> CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=y
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UMEM is not set
> # CONFIG_INPUT_FF_MEMLESS is not set
> # CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM is not set
> CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM=y
>
>
>    Name        Flags      Part Type  FS Type          [Label]
> Size (MB)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>--- hda1        Boot        Primary   Linux ext2
> 256.50 hda2                    Primary   Linux swap /
> Solaris              1024.46 hda3                    Primary   Linux
> ext3                       21480.44 hda5                    Logical
> Linux ReiserFS                   28771.84 hda6
> Logical   Linux ReiserFS                   28493.15
>
> IOW, do I need to/should I recompile my kernel or change partition
> sizes?

if you don't plan to try suspend-to-disk.
No

even if you plan to try suspend-to-disk it might work with a swapfile. So 
still no.
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