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

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Gerald Waugh wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, ISEE Multimedia wrote:
>
> >
> > > > > This is what I thought as all previous upgrades have worked and swap
> > > > file size
> > > >has adjusted accordingly by itself.
> > > >
> > > >What?
> > > >The swap file size adjusted by itself?
> > > >I don't think so! Would you please confirm that.
> > >
> >
> > Whenever I have upgraded my RAM it always adjusts the swap size to match on
> > my RAQ4's
> >
>
> Sounds like that could be a problem...
> It may be that the memory manager assumes the swap space will be the same
> as the RAM.
>
> Now guess what happens when the memory manager attempts to swap more
> memory than the actual swap partition size.
>
>
There are a few ways to increas the swap size.
1) actually create a larger swap partition (tough to do)
2) create a second swap partition (a little tough to do)
3) create a file /home/swap and use swapon to enable it.

3 sounds the easiest, for a normal linux system.

Gerald
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