Thanks for all the comments. All confirmed that recognition of the new
memory is automatic. Most of the interesting discussion was on tuning
and swap space. There is quite a divergence of opinion as to just what
swap space is relevant after an upgrade and how you achieve it. If you
do extend it on a running system then you should really use an unused
partition on a different disk to your existing swap space.
We don't have any unused partitions so the only solution appears to be an
extra disk - not terribly welcome financially on top of the mem upgrade
but the only practicable alternative. However there was a cogent counter
argument for saying you might need LESS swap space.
As the info contained in all these answers is very useful for anybody
contemplating mem upgrades I have collected it and made it available on
our anon area of ftp as follows as a sort of faq
ftp.mcb.net/pub/dist/alpha.memoryupgrade.txt
Thanks very much to all. We install at the end of this week.
Stuart McKenzie
Received on Tue Jul 02 1996 - 13:55:34 NZST