On Sep 24, 7:11 pm, korgman <kor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2007-09-24, frz <f...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So I am keeping it that way. I now have 1.5 gig ram on the laptop with
> > 1 gig sawp. I plan on getting a larger HDD. When I do, I might make
> > the 2xRAM swap then just to have it. Thanks for the replies.
>
> Unless you open many-many big and heavy programs or big files you can
> use minimal like 100Mbytes.
>
> I have one testing computer with 256Ram no-swap: no problems.
>
> Examine how much memory you need. Little swap is good. If you use
> too much of swap, you need RAM not swap. Swap is slow.
>
> --
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> Knowledge report: One year, still plenty to learn

Ok. New question, do i have to tell the system of the newly install
ram, edit recognisable ram somewhere? Of course mind you, I have a 512
mb card inside with the added 1 gig card but, same model and speed. I
will get the other 1 gig later to have them match.