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

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 09 September 2002 19:13, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> Webmaster : Beyond2K 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?
>
> Not that I've ever run across.  Note that while lots of Red Hat Linux
> documentation (perhaps other distrib's documentation as well) specifies
> a swap file of twice memory size, there's NO actual limitation or need;
> the documentation was originally written when machines had 4 meg or so
> of memory, and never changed.
>
> > If so, what adjustments are required?
>
> None
>
> > Can they be made over SSH?
>
> Not applicable <smile>.
>
Are you sure of that Jeff?
The utilities on the RaQ indicate that swap size changes when you add more 
memory, yet the hd swap partition does not change.

Gerald
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