added memory ...

[Ben Stringer]

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 12:18, Kent Emia wrote:
> hello to all,
> 
> is it safe just to add up another slot of memory without any changes?

Should be no software changes required.

> 
> 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 ..

The linux kernel will use any available memory for performance caching.
So you may still see all the memory being used, but adding the extra
memory still should improve the performance of the PC. So it is not
useless.

Cheers, Ben