Thanks, Jim,
I honestly have not considered that. I think I ought to do so before I
decide to put together a new Linux box. Doing so may save me some real
headaches!
Bob
James (Jim) Hatridge wrote:
>
> On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Robert Russell wrote:
>
> > I've been running a Pentium 150 with 64Mb SDRAM with no difficulty. I
> > ran with 32Mb with no problems, as well. The only difficulty I
> > experienced with Linux was when I attempted to run two HDDs with /,
> > /opt, /usr and /home on a WD UDMA(4.3Gb) with the swap partition on a
> > Conner(420Mb) IDE. I suspect that the ide just couldn't keep up and
> > "paged' me to death.
>
> Hi Robert et al;
>
> I can agree with you here. At the moment I have two HD a 120Mb and a
> 540Mb. When I first install SuSE I had my swap on the 540Mb later I
> upgraded to SuSE 5.2. At that time I moved my swap to the slower 120Mb. I
> can tell a real change. Much slower now.
>
> > One other point: I've heard and can confirm only to a limited degree
> > that Linux gains more from RAM than from processor speed. There is a
> > limit to the ram at this point though.
>
> This is true too. One thing to watch for when you add RAM is that your
> cach memory is enough for your new main RAM. For example I have 8Mb Ram
> and 64k cach. I plan on upping my Ram to 32Mb as soon as possible. At the
> same time I should up my cach too. My manual says upto 512k.
>
> Later!
>
> J
> I
> M
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