RE: [cobalt-users] Memory upgrade - any additional steps?

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Bob G7 wrote:

> >
> > On contacting one host of ours (who shall remain nameless) to
> > request such an upgrade I was informed of the following when I
> > complained about the extortionate cost quoted.
> >
> > > "With the RaQ servers, there are other things which need to
> > > be changed in them to make the ram upgrade actually work
> > > correctly. This is due to the way cobalt swap file sizes are
> > > generated"
> >
> > Is there any truth to this statement?
> >
> > If so, what adjustments are required? Can they be made over SSH?
> The RaQ4 should see the new memory and be fine, there is nothing else you
> need to do other than via the GUI System Status/Memory verify the RaQ4 is
> seeing the new memory. The 'Host' may be thinking of another RaQx, I'm not
> sure what may need to be done with those but for a RaQ4 it's just install
> and go.
>

The 'Host' was talking about increasing HD swap partition to match the
size of RAM. Good to do, but not an absolute requirement.

Gerald
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