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 1JHsso-0004Rx-QI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:36:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E6DDBE0733; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:36:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCE30E0733 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:36:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id w53so80485pyg.25 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:36:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=UMr1nxIuZfiDxhu4Mcr0+w2aqAgLaS3vFyibRwb8iE4=; b=q1UMMyJ4MawmkHim7Y1Uja+Ii958lOpxxovPSt7E2NsBPkXrWiLijw1XpmWqp7BxUNj3QAZVC9TXlgfg+5DYNcxJtGMc81jmL58HVF1FTu101i/JasT4NFjtEzSFdfw+TJBKXQ5PLN6bRAmYRNjcux8Z0o8Wf2OrtIMxJ6bKFpU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=NV8kDiTp23XJlq6kY+8bVRWYu0jqaGUKa1BMVguIXiNvrv4ScUiitZCIWzcWBBIcjAPKVF3AwhHMdc+nIferGCa4kGNt8LAkStvlBTFSkW8nCM2+cwaxcR6lDQfkT3Kp2DBljqCt8GnimJ5EDUdS0N/qW+pIJRc5oTd+Ex23GJc= Received: by 10.65.191.3 with SMTP id t3mr402968qbp.0.1201145764191; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:36:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.1.1.39? ( [216.106.97.39]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e14sm187329qbe.24.2008.01.23.19.36.02 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:36:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <47980859.2050801@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:39:05 -0500 From: Hal Martin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071125) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap References: <20080121134214.66ee32ef@lbg2.evolone.org> <200801220044.54096.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <20080123131423.29edc59b@lbg2.evolone.org> In-Reply-To: <20080123131423.29edc59b@lbg2.evolone.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ad249b01-2033-4ebd-b45c-e386db48f608 X-Archives-Hash: c79452b01d1b0c85873f46d6d03269ac Ahh, but it won't last... $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2059824 2044512 15312 0 37636 50868 -/+ buffers/cache: 1956008 103816 Swap: 4289308 1229024 3060284 Now this I can live with... $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3629832 3499156 130676 0 56644 3070796 -/+ buffers/cache: 371716 3258116 Swap: 0 0 0 Unfortunately that machine is 32bit and thus only supports ~3.6GB of the 4GB of RAM. :-( -Hal Michael Higgins wrote: > 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, > > -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list