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

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Webmaster : Beyond2K wrote:

> > The 'Host' was talking about increasing HD swap partition to match the
> > size of RAM. Good to do, but not an absolute requirement.
> 
> Ok, so is this a process which is documented somewhere?

In Red Hat installation manuals.  But it's not a requirement, and in
fact, according to most Linux gurus, not "good to do" at all.

For example, if you've got a 128 meg machine with a swap file/partition
of twice that you've got total available machine memory of 384 meg.  If
you've got a 512 meg machine why would you need a total memory of 1.5
gigs?

In practice we've never created more than one gig including swap, and on
systems with a gig or more of memory we usually don't even bother with a
swap file/partition (I don't think automatic Red Hat install lets you
leave it off, though).

Jeff
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