On Friday 24 October 2003 02:36, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > But (just to clarify things), does it perform better with 512 > > than 1024 ? Or does a person just not need that much? > > Not for a desktop. Only servers handling web services and lot'sa > lot'sa users, or a sound/video studio. So unless you're Walt Disney > or Dream Works, 512MB is overkill. 'Course if you've got more ram, > Linux will try an use it all, and maybe still bump into /swap .... > but the memory management scheme in kernels that can address over > 860MB of ram, also slow things down. I've heard about 7%, I believe > in the few days I've used an enterprise kernel, it's even more than > that .... for normal desktop use.
OK. Thanks m8. -- Martin L. Johansen
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