Re: Adding RAM

Michael Soibelman wrote:
Andreas Stieger wrote:

Hi,

Olav wrote:
So do I need to do anything else than pushing the cards into correct
slots? I suppose my SUSE 10.1 system will pick up the new situation and
relate to it on boot, right?
Sure, just go ahead and plug it in.

Also, at the moment I have 1 GB of swap with my 1 GB of RAM. Should I
adjust the size of my swap partition in connection with the RAM upgrade?
There is no need to do that. Only if you need the swapping space. So, do
you need all that virtual memory? With that additional physical RAM you
have? I'd say that you don't.

kind regards,
Andreas

He probably doesn't need the extra swap space with all that RAM, but.....in
the Oracle installation literature it does say to make the swap space equal
to 1.5 times the size of the physical ram so it 'might' be a good idea.


I dare say that if you ever page... you'll notice it quite a bit
(like moving to an old 386 computer).... Having swap will just allow
the machine to stay up without arbitrarily killing off processes... but
it will perform SO bad, that you'll want to increase your main
memory.
.

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