Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB - 1 GB lead to better performance?

2005-11-02 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On onsdag 02 november 2005, 02:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I know if I'm regularly filling up my RAM? If you're using KDE, ksysguard is nice. You can add a ksysguard applet to the panel, and you can fire up the ksysguard application. From there, you can drag an drop a sensor showing

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB - 1 GB lead to better performance?

2005-11-01 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 06:19:09PM -0500, Robert Glueck wrote: I'm thinking of upgrading my i686 system (Intel Celeron, 1.8 GHz) from 512 MB RAM to 1GB (it uses PC133 SDRAM DIMM modules). I'm assuming this upgrade will give me better speed and performance. I recently went from 256 MB to 1

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB - 1 GB lead to better performance?

2005-11-01 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
How often do you deal with large data sets? What is a 'large data set'? I often see this term but not very sure what it means... Thanks

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB - 1 GB lead to better performance?

2005-11-01 Thread Bruno Buys
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: How often do you deal with large data sets? What is a 'large data set'? I often see this term but not very sure what it means... Thanks Guess he was referring generically to any data the program might use. One example familiar to me is a 25MB image file

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB - 1 GB lead to better performance?

2005-11-01 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On tirsdag 01 november 2005, 14:40, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: How often do you deal with large data sets? What is a 'large data set'? I often see this term but not very sure what it means... In my master's in astrophysics, I created, and subsequently analyzed files that were around 100

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB - 1 GB lead to better performance?

2005-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 15:40 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: How often do you deal with large data sets? What is a 'large data set'? I often see this term but not very sure what it means... Any data that fills up your RAM is large. For example, gqview uses *gobs* of memory trying to open

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB - 1 GB lead to better performance?

2005-11-01 Thread debian
The whole point is this: If you are using applications that regularly fill up your RAM and are making extensive use of swap space then Yes! you will see a vast improvement in performance if you up the RAM. The reason for this is that it takes less time to read from RAM than it does to copy from

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB - 1 GB lead to better performance?

2005-11-01 Thread Tony Godshall
... How do I know if I'm regularly filling up my RAM? free If you want a record over time, put it in cron. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB - 1 GB lead to better performance?

2005-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
Please don't top-post. On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 01:55 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The whole point is this: If you are using applications that regularly fill up your RAM and are making extensive use of swap space then Yes! you will see a vast improvement in performance if you up the RAM.

Does increasing RAM 512 MB - 1 GB lead to better performance?

2005-10-31 Thread Robert Glueck
I'm thinking of upgrading my i686 system (Intel Celeron, 1.8 GHz) from 512 MB RAM to 1GB (it uses PC133 SDRAM DIMM modules). I'm assuming this upgrade will give me better speed and performance. However, the memory module maker Kingston says that most operating systems are optimized for a set

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB - 1 GB lead to better performance?

2005-10-31 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 06:19:09PM -0500, Robert Glueck wrote: I'm thinking of upgrading my i686 system (Intel Celeron, 1.8 GHz) from 512 MB RAM to 1GB (it uses PC133 SDRAM DIMM modules). I'm assuming this upgrade will give me better speed and performance. However, the memory module

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB - 1 GB lead to better performance?

2005-10-31 Thread Robert Kopp
--- Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 06:19:09PM -0500, Robert Glueck wrote: I'm thinking of upgrading my i686 system (Intel Celeron, 1.8 GHz) from 512 MB RAM to 1GB (it uses PC133 SDRAM DIMM modules). I'm assuming this upgrade will give me better

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB - 1 GB lead to better performance?

2005-10-31 Thread Bruno Buys
Robert Kopp wrote: --- Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 06:19:09PM -0500, Robert Glueck wrote: I'm thinking of upgrading my i686 system (Intel Celeron, 1.8 GHz) from 512 MB RAM to 1GB (it uses PC133 SDRAM DIMM modules).

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB - 1 GB lead to better performance?

2005-10-31 Thread William Ballard
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:28:33PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: programs together. Daily life will remain more or less the same. 2GB makes VMWare very nice, especially with a modern fast CPU that mostly idles anyway. Carve off 3 512 MB chunks and you can simulate a network. It's also the best

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB - 1 GB lead to better performance?

2005-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 18:19 -0500, Robert Glueck wrote: I'm thinking of upgrading my i686 system (Intel Celeron, 1.8 GHz) from 512 MB RAM to 1GB (it uses PC133 SDRAM DIMM modules). I'm assuming this upgrade will give me better speed and performance. Do you hit swap on a regular basis? How