Re: [newbie] how much memory?

[Michael Holt]

Upgrading your RAM always helps, I'm currently using 192 megs and I hardly ever see the hard drive light.  I guess it would only make a big difference for you if you currently hear your hard drive spinning up every time you move your mouse.

As far as the swap space, it used to be that you would allot at least as much swap as you have physical RAM, maybe even twice as much.  Since physical RAM has become so large on most machines that's not quite necessary anymore, however I still use 128MB swap myself.

Does that help?
Mike

Kirk McElhearn wrote:

Will it make a big difference running Mandrake if I upgrade from 64 to
128 megs?  How much should my swap file be with 64 megs?  Should it be
the double?  Same for 128?

Thanks,
Kirk

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