Will Linplus see my upgraded memory?

Hi all, i've upgraded my 8gb acer aspire one from 512mb to 1gb, will linplus see and use this? as im pretty sure its not using the extra ram.

Thanks

 

yes, linpus will see your memory upgrade no problem... but why not upgrade your one to 1.5 gb memory?? than linpus will work even beter!,
cheers.

 

Press F2 at boot, go into the BIOS and see if it's seeing it.

You can also run

Code:

free

and should see it if that machine is seeing it.

 

Linpus will see it, but will it use it?

 

If it shows up in "free" it's using it.

 

My point was more if it is not free it is using it.

I know Windows is a memory hog, but what sort of applications need 1.5MB under Linpus?

 

Had some spare ram lying around and decided to use it, looks like its dead now though

 

Tyler Durden might ask, "how's that working out for you, being clever?"

It's not so much what apps need it, but what combination of apps need it. Linpus runs ~140-180 megs with nothing else running, just x and the various daemons. Add Firefox, an MP3 player, OpenOffice, and a few Thunar and terminal windows, and you're hitting swap hard if you only have 512 megs.

But for a single app example, how about virtualbox? It can use all the RAM you can throw at it and then some.

 

No one seems to have spelt it out on this forum, if anything the implication is that 512MB is OK under Linpus.

Good response, that is why I put the extra 1GB in. At AU$13 it is a cheap upgrade.

 

running the "free" command I could see that Linpus was using over 512meg of ram on my machine...

I was wondering if there was a way of turning the swp file off, like the XP users do...
maybe that would stop the damn things writing to the SSD!

gc

 

http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/07/recl ... spire.html