upgrade ram

[Scott Henson]

rodrigo morales wrote:
> hello
> I am going to update my ram
> I have 512 mb and I am going it to increase to 1024 mb (1gb)
> in swap now I have 1024 mb (1gb)
> As I can update or change the partition of swap so that mb has 2048 (2 gb)?
> It is necessary that my ram raises to the partition swap when updating?
> exists some command or some form to modify the space of swap?
> 

The old axiom of 2xram for swap seems to be not so true on modern
kernels.  I would suggest sticking with you current swap and not
worrying unless you need the extra swap space.  But generally speaking,
if your system is using over 1GB of ram, its going to be pretty unusable.