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From: Michael Higgins <linux@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:14:26
Message-Id: 20080123131423.29edc59b@lbg2.evolone.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap by "Hemmann
1 On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:44:53 +0100
2 "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote:
3
4 > On Montag, 21. Januar 2008, Michael Higgins wrote:
5 > > So, I just got 2 GB of RAM in the mail. Whoo hoo.
6 > >
7 > > Before I pop these in, soliciting any thoughts about the following:
8 > >
9 > > zcat /proc/config.gz |grep MEM
10 > > CONFIG_SHMEM=y
11 > > # CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set
12 > > # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set
13 > > CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
14 > > # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
15 > > CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
16 > > CONFIG_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y
17 > > CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL=y
18 > > # CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL is not set
19 > > # CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_MANUAL is not set
20 > > CONFIG_FLATMEM=y
21 > > CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP=y
22 > > # CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_STATIC is not set
23 > > CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=y
24 > > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UMEM is not set
25 > > # CONFIG_INPUT_FF_MEMLESS is not set
26 > > # CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM is not set
27 > > CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM=y
28 > >
29 > >
30 > > Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label]
31 > > Size (MB)
32 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
33 > >--- hda1 Boot Primary Linux ext2
34 > > 256.50 hda2 Primary Linux swap /
35 > > Solaris 1024.46 hda3 Primary Linux
36 > > ext3 21480.44 hda5 Logical
37 > > Linux ReiserFS 28771.84 hda6
38 > > Logical Linux ReiserFS 28493.15
39 > >
40 > > IOW, do I need to/should I recompile my kernel or change partition
41 > > sizes?
42 >
43 > if you don't plan to try suspend-to-disk.
44 > No
45 >
46 > even if you plan to try suspend-to-disk it might work with a
47 > swapfile. So still no.
48
49 Thanks for the feedback. I figured I'd be covered with the setup as it
50 is, but you never know... unless you know. This thing never sleeps...
51 so no worries there.
52
53 Anyway, I just popped 'em in:
54
55 $ free
56 total used free shared buffers cached
57 Mem: 2074548 166048 1908500 0 6812 77284
58 -/+ buffers/cache: 81952 1992596
59 Swap: 1000432 0 1000432
60
61 [ Nice. I like that last line a lot. ]
62
63 Cheers,
64
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Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap Hal Martin <hal.martin@×××××.com>