From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JHmvS-0006Jm-EA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:14:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B2E4E068C; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:14:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lbg2.evolone.org (unknown [198.145.28.177]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BB42E068C for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:14:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lbg2.evolone.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2F3901BE78; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:14:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:14:23 -0800 From: Michael Higgins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap Message-ID: <20080123131423.29edc59b@lbg2.evolone.org> In-Reply-To: <200801220044.54096.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> References: <20080121134214.66ee32ef@lbg2.evolone.org> <200801220044.54096.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Organization: Evolone X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 46c09d71-d328-4d9d-b56e-af2414cc9d9f X-Archives-Hash: 56453401c43149d9dfb41c47db7bc11c On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:44:53 +0100 "Hemmann, Volker Armin" 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, -- |\ /| | | ~ ~ | \/ | |---| `|` ? | |ichael | |iggins \^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list