Topic: Doubled RAM, what next?

[Ryan Sutton]

I have swapped a 64mb DIMM with a 128MB DIMM.  Besides restarting SME v5, is there anything I should change with SME to improve performance?  

I am concerned that I had 64MB at install of SME which affected the size of the SWAP partition.  Does it matter?

RS

[Dan Brown]

IIRC, swap is automatically created at 256 MB.  You shouldn't need to change anything, unless your machine doesn't recognize the new RAM (which is unlikely).

[Rob Hillis]

Ryan Sutton wrote:

> I have swapped a 64mb DIMM with a 128MB DIMM.  Besides
> restarting SME v5, is there anything I should change with SME
> to improve performance?

Just type free -m from the shell prompt to be sure that SME has recognised the extra RAM... I have had issues with an older motherboard which did not correctly recognise the amount of RAM installed on that particular machine.

If it's *not* registering properly, you'll need to add 'append="mem=128m"' to your lilo.conf to get SME to use the correct amount of memory. (don't forget to re-run lilo after modifying lilo.conf!)

[Alexander Ziemann]

Hi,

take care, that your system caches the whole RAM. This e.g. is not the case with older Mainboards using FX or TX chipset.

I suffered heavy impacts on performance with these MBs after upgrading from 64 to 128 MB.