memory upgrade

kcourser · 03-04-2003, 04:11 PM

I'm using mandrake 9 and it won't recognize more than 1 gb of memory. I've installed 2 gb. Also, diskdrake won't let me resize my swap partition to more that 256Mb.

Thanks,

Kevin

trickykid · 03-04-2003, 04:25 PM

You'll probably need to recompile your kernel to support more than 1 gb of memory and most likely you can't resize your swap partition as you have no unallocated space left on your hard drive to resize and use. You'll have to most likely have to free up actual hard drive space to make a bigger swap space, even though with 2gb of memory, you'd have to ask yourself, why do you even need more swap space.. ?? I have a 64 meg server which has a 200 meg swap space which is never used..

kcourser · 03-04-2003, 07:13 PM

thanks for the info! I thought I saw something about the swat having to be the same size as the ram - is that not true?

arnold · 03-04-2003, 07:46 PM

I think the general rule is double mem - i have triple

quietguy47 · 03-04-2003, 08:01 PM

With 2 gig's of memory, you don't even need swap. IMO if you have more than 256 meg's of memory you can do away with swap or reduce it to equal or less than your ram.

arnold · 03-04-2003, 08:20 PM

I think we are all assuming this is your personal workstation, not a multiuser server?

I have 500MB ram, am not doing anything special, 245MB of my 1.4gb swap is "used"

I am surprised swap is not being used if you have 64MB ram

trickykid · 03-04-2003, 10:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by arnold
I am surprised swap is not being used if you have 64MB ram

Well, its not high load of a server, actually not as much now as I got a new machine acting solely as a FTP server, but with only 64 megs of RAM is still NFS Fileserver, Internal FTP, Webserver and my main machine to access my internal network and yes, it's using just around 64megs of RAM right now being used.. I guess you call that good administration, I don't know.

kcourser · 03-11-2003, 10:54 AM

this is a multiuser server, my problem now is that i need to implement raid 0 to create one seemless harddrive. i've installed enterprise kernel rpm and the 2gb of ram was recognized, but the raid modules are not included. is there an easier solution than manually configuring the kernel (e.g. enterprise kernel w/ raid support RPM)? i haven't had much luck compiling kernels.

thanks