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I was wondering if anyone else has encountered a problem before when adding more RAM to their system.
I'm using RH8, with 256 DDR and 509MB of swap, and it works fine,. I just bought another 256 DDR dimm giving me 512 RAM and 509 MB of swap (as I do not know how to change the value), but when my system loads up, and I try to login to Gnome2 I get a segmentation fault, but when I remove the second DIM of DDR everything works fine.
Distribution: RH 6.2, Gen2, Knoppix,arch, bodhi, studio, suse, mint
Posts: 3,304
Rep:
i meant you could make the swapsize smaller than
the device, to test.
even though it is 500 megs, you could turn it off,
or make it 100 megs or whatever. You don't have to
repartition to make it smaller.
windows uses ram from the top down, and linux
uses it from the bottom up. it used to be that way
though. they could have changed it, but i doubt it.
Well the ram is fine, left the memtest program running while I was out doing some errands, and it did 4 passes with 0 errors and 0 ECC's
I'm in gnome now, but I disabled swap, loaded gnome then enabled the swap back to the 509MB, and it seems to be running fine. Need to reboot and see what happens with the swap loaded at startup.
I always thought the swap had to be double the amount of physical ram, turns out I was mis-informed.
If you double ram, you need less swap. Current kernels can run with no swap IIRC.
I have 384 MB ram, 128 MB of swap, I am compiling a program, playing music with xmmx, browsing the web, downloading something with wget, running fetchmail, procmail, evolution, tail and probably several things I am forgetting. Memory usage:
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