Adding RAM

[SteVe Cook]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 13/10/06, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Have you run top in a terminal window and does that give you a clue to
>> why the machine is slow? It shows memory and swap usage and will also
>> show any processes hogging the cpu.
> 
> 
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>> Is the slowness accompanied by a lot of disk activity?
> 
> The disk light blinks about twice a second when the machine is not
> loaded. That seems about on par with other systems that I've seen.
> 
>> I believe you need to run the 686 kernel to recognise 1GB of memory. The
>> 386, IIRC is limited to about 750MB, although I don't see why that
>> should make the system particularly slow.
> 
> Can anybody else confirm this? Can I run that kernel on a Duron?
> 

Not sure if it would make any differnce, but would the size of the swap 
partian effect the speed in any way.  Ubuntu recommends 2X ram size.

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SteVe