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From: Michael Higgins <linux@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:43:35
Message-Id: 20080121134214.66ee32ef@lbg2.evolone.org
1 So, I just got 2 GB of RAM in the mail. Whoo hoo.
2
3 Before I pop these in, soliciting any thoughts about the following:
4
5 zcat /proc/config.gz |grep MEM
6 CONFIG_SHMEM=y
7 # CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set
8 # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set
9 CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
10 # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
11 CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
12 CONFIG_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y
13 CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL=y
14 # CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL is not set
15 # CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_MANUAL is not set
16 CONFIG_FLATMEM=y
17 CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP=y
18 # CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_STATIC is not set
19 CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=y
20 # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UMEM is not set
21 # CONFIG_INPUT_FF_MEMLESS is not set
22 # CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM is not set
23 CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM=y
24
25
26 Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label]
27 Size (MB)
28 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
29 hda1 Boot Primary Linux ext2
30 256.50 hda2 Primary Linux swap /
31 Solaris 1024.46 hda3 Primary Linux
32 ext3 21480.44 hda5 Logical
33 Linux ReiserFS 28771.84 hda6
34 Logical Linux ReiserFS 28493.15
35
36 IOW, do I need to/should I recompile my kernel or change partition
37 sizes?
38
39 Any thoughts appreciated.
40
41 Cheers,
42
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