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Subject: Re: Re: Upgrading RAM
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It might make sense to modify the size of your swapfile.  The freebsd handbook describes how to do that fairly easily.  
It isn't necessary though.


> 
> From: "Paul T. Root" <ptroot@iaces.com>
> Date: 2005/09/13 Tue AM 10:56:50 EDT
> To: Øystein Holmen <oystein@holmen.cc>
> CC: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Upgrading RAM
> 
> It should just work.
> 
> A long time ago (2.x and 3.x days), Compaq's wouldn't work right
> because of their junkie architecture. So you had to tell the kernel
> how much memory you had.
> 
> That junkie architecture has moved to HP now, but at least that
> problem is no longer there.
> 
> Øystein Holmen wrote:
> > I have a machine running FreeBSD 5.4 with 512MB RAM. Now I want to  
> > install an extra RAM-module. Do I have to do something in my  
> > configuration, or is it "plug-and-play"?
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> > Øystein Holmen_______________________________________________
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