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- Subject: Re: [SLUG] upgrading RAM, what do about swapper partition ?
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- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 00:10:00 +1100 (EST)
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>> can I leave the swapper 'asis' at 512MB ?
>
> swap is used when program memory exceeds the physical memory. It them
> moves some out to disk, this may never happen in your new setup.
Ken,
so I can ignore RH docs that tell me ' swap part should be equal to twice
RAM', good.
as far as physical RAM is concerned: is it a 'bad idea' to get a new RAM
chip in addition to existing RAM, versus, getting all new RAM chips ?
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