On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Charlie wrote:

> On Tuesday 30 April 2002 11:05 am, Jim Dawson sent the following:
> > I just upgraded my computer from 256MB to 512MB. Is there anything I need
> > to do to optimize the computer for the additional memory?  My swap
> > partition is currently 256MB.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Yeah Jim. Enjoy the lower noise levels of a hard drive that won't read nearly
> as often.
>
> When I went to 512 MB (I was also installing MDK 8.1 at the same time) the
> swap file was 400 MB but it was hardly used at all unless I was running a few
> more than the usual XMMS, K-Mail, Mozilla, and whatever desktop toys happened
> to be running. When I "upgraded to 8.2" I didn't touch the swap. It's still
> at 400 MB, but there's a full 1 GB (4x256 MB PC 133) of SDRAM for it to play
> with. No worries at all.
>
> Have fun!
>

damn! now _THAT_ is some RAM stuffed in that box.

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