Stephen Brown on Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:23:04 -0400 (EDT) |
Kevin Brosius wrote: >> So the question I've got is, in what cases would you want to > use 2x or 3x RAM if your desktop/workstation machine has 128 or 256M of > RAM? (Ignoring the fact that on a 30G drive you might not care about > 500M of drive space...) I have 256M of memory in my main workstation and around 130G of disk. I have swap of 1.5G The main reason I have that much is vmware, it likes to have swap to play with, but I also keep tons of things running 24x7 and it just sucks up a lot of memory. It isn't a big perf hit because the things I am not using at the moment get pushed out to swap, and that leaves more space for the vfs cache. I mean, when you have netscape and mozilla running to test web pages, I really don't want it sucking up a huge portion of real mem if I can possibly avoid it :) I am up to 1.5G by experimentation over the past year or 2 - I would notice that I am using a good % of my swap and make a mental note to bump it up another notch the next time I reconfigured my partitions. Steve -- Stephen Brown Data Clarity, Inc. steve@dataclarity.net 1-877-496-3527 fax: 801-382-1525 ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug
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