> > Several of my SPLAT systems have 4 GB of RAM, but I never see > more than about 700 MB utilized at any given time. These are > very busy firewalls but they don't break a sweat. RAM is > cheap for commodity servers, so I load them up anyways. > Damon, Did you know that having that much memory might actually decrease performance in linux as long as you're running in 32 bit mode? Memory access above 896MB (HIGHMEM) is slower than access to the 16-896MB (NORMAL) memory blocks. Using 1GB instead of 4GB might because of this give you better performance unless you're hitting swap with only 1GB (hitting swap is *much* much slower).
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