physical upgrade of memory (RAM)

[ballans]

Hello,

On a HP Visualize Workstations 785/B 1000 with an HP-UX 10.20 on it, I want to add a RAM card.
(there is 512 Mb and I have to add 512 in addition).
I have two questions :
1) does my workstation (or the system) automatically recognize the additional memory card ?
2) If yes, does I change the size of my swap partition or not (actually 1 Gb)? I want to say in fact : is it obligatory ?
Thanks a lot in advance for your reply
HervÃ

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

1) Yes, the system will recognise the memory

2) No, not necessarily, though it might be a good idea.


Pete

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Your system should automatically identify the memory if is compatible. you should not have to do anything.

Increasing the swap would be a good idea but not necessary. Depends on how the system is used. If it is used heavily, it would be a good idea to increase the swap and add dump if you need a crash dump from the system.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Peter Leddy_1]

Hi,

Your system should pick up the additional memory with no problems.

It is recommended to have swap configured as double the amount of physical memory in a system, so in this case it should be 2Gb.

HTH,

Peter