Re: Cache size. Basically, the more the better. For an example, price up the
intel Xeon chips, you'll find a 256K cache Xeon is about a tenth of a 1Mb
Xeon. You will see a performance increase, but you may then hit other
bottlenecks, like your main memory speed, and the IDE interface to your hard
drives. Owning a PC is a very expensive business, it's difficult to upgrade
one item without upgrading another, and soon you're on a spiralling course
to an empty bank acocunt. Or piggybank, if thats your thing ;-)
----- Original Message -----
From: Josh McCaffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 5:09 PM
Subject: [newbie] changing partition table....
I've been following the thread about appropriate partitions under Linux,
and I'm still not sure what would be appropriate for my uses. I'm
running a P133, 48M RAM, 1.6G HD and I'm the primary user on the
system. My mom does wordproccessing, and my brother doesn't do much at
all. I'm getting a bigger HD around Xmas and some more memory. What
about the cache sixe? It's a 256k pipeline -burst, would I get any more
performance out of a 512? Oh yeah, about the partitions... Currently
I've got 2, one for swap at 50mb and the rest for / . How could I
change the partion table w/o going back through the install process?
What's the purpose of the /home partition? Please tell me there's some
way to change my partitions w/o reinstalling again.
-Josh
