added memory ...

[Kent Emia]

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 10:22, Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 19:18, Kent Emia wrote:
> > hello to all,
> > 
> > is it safe just to add up another slot of memory without any changes?
> > 
> > and just wondered before adding up the 256mb of memory i have ranging
> > 4000k - 5000k free of memory and as i added another 256mb a total of
> > 512mb of memory in my PC .. still the free memory is still ranging from
> > the one i specified above ..
> > 
> > so does this means that its useless for me adding up the memory because
> > i still do have the same free memory ..
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> It's not useless at all.

forgive me but im not a real techie guy

> The free memory didn't change because you didn't change the amount of
> virtual memory (man swapon) 

swapon ?? is it off by default? do i have to do this "swapon" ??

> but because you have added more real memory,
> it's likely that you will do a lot less paging in and out of virtual
> memory. Of course, you can add more virtual memory - see the man pages
> referenced above.

running atop

MEM |  tot 497.1M | free   11.3M | cache 221.8M | buff   19.4M |
SWP | tot  511.9M | free  511.9M |              | swin       0 | 

i've noticed my swap wasn't even bothered .. but my memory is being much
consumed even though only few apps are running that is my real concern 

but if these is TOTALLY normal, maybe i am just expecting my free memory
will be will 256M or less..


> 
> Craig
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