That's the reason I asked. I have a 1GB and a 2GB RAM piece here. The 2GB uses ~0.2 watts more than the 1GB. That's not much, but if 2GB won't increase speed there's no reason to use it.
2009/11/9 Kok, Auke <[email protected]> > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > Alexander Spindelndreher wrote: > >> Can any of the developers tell me how much RAM Moblin use when running? > Does > >> it make sense to upgrade my netbbok to 2GB for Moblin? > >> > > > > if you have 1Gb now then I suspect going to 2Gb will bring you some, but > not very much, > > improvement. > > > > Moblin will use all the ram you give it, but after the "core" amount, the > rest just is used > > as extra disk cache. While disk cache is nice... at some point the > benefits are small > > also, keep in mind that adding RAM may increase power consumption. I don't > know > the exact numbers for RAM, but it's not free. > > Auke > _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
