Re: Getting Debian Sarge to full software RAID-1; 4 GB virtual memory...

[Jeremiah Merkl <merkjj@uleth.ca>]

On 17-Mar-05, at 3:09 PM, Justin Pryzby wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 04:29:03PM -0500, Frank P. Hart wrote:
> [...] I don't know anything about RAID.
>
> > One other question:  I have 2 GB of DRAM and I specfied a 2 GB swap 
> > size.
> > I'm hoping to get 4 GB of virtual memory.  But I used a tool by DJ 
> > Delorie
> > (used previously in Cygwin) that says I only have 2 GB of virtual 
> > memory.
> > I'd appreciate some suggestions on how to fix this, too, or other 
> > (more
> > reliable?) ways to check the amount of virtual memory Debian thinks 
> > it has
> > available.
> Just run top; it has a status line which tells you the amount of real
> and nonreal memory.  Add them together to get virtual.

or 'free', but top is prettier. 'free -t' will even do the math for 
you. :-D

> /proc/swaps lists active swap partitions; and,
> /proc/meminfo lists more info about physical memory than I know what
> to do with..

...like most of what's in /proc. ;-)

-- Jeremiah Merkl
-- Department of Information Technology
-- University of Lethbridge