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

[Michael Higgins <linux@evolone.org>]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:44:53 +0100
"Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for the feedback. I figured I'd be covered with the setup as it
is, but you never know... unless you know. This thing never sleeps...
so no worries there.

Anyway, I just popped 'em in:

$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2074548     166048    1908500          0       6812      77284
-/+ buffers/cache:      81952    1992596
Swap:      1000432          0    1000432

[ Nice. I like that last line a lot. ]

Cheers,

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