Assuming you intend to use this as a server still, rather than for (say) photoshoppery, your RAM should be fine. More RAM would allow you to give better performance to more clients, but it very much depends on the services you activate. Many UNIX-based services are very efficient, with comparatively modest RAM needs.
I have found that beige G3s - despite officially needing PC-66 SDRAM - will run quite happily with PC-133 so long as it's carefully selected with the correct density of chips. So cost and availability of RAM shouldn't be a problem if you decide you want more.
Remember that other constraints will apply. If yours is a beige, neither Panther nor Panther server can use the mobo video, so you'll need a graphics card. Likewise, in either a beige or a B&W your IDE bus speed is a bit limited, so you might benefit more from plugging your drives into a new PCI ATA card rather than buy extra RAM.
GWW
On 11 Feb 2004, at 23:00, Simon wrote:
Yeah, you should be just fine with that ... I mean it depends on what services you decide to run, but generally speaking 384MB is just fine.
David
On Feb 11, 2004, at 4:39 PM, nathan wrote:
I have a G3/300 Server with 384megs of ram currently.. I have two 80 gig
IDE hd's on board.. Do I need more ram to run X?
I'm running B&W G3 350 (overclocked to 450) here at work at the moment with 10.3.2 with "only 320 MB RAM. Currently have Illustrator 10, Eudora, Acrobat 5, Safari 1.2, FontBook, M$ Word, iCal and some system "tuners" running and it's not too bad. If I had a choice I'd put more RAM in it though.
Bear in mind I do have some services turned off - like apache, I have disabled most of the keyboard layouts I don't/won't use, same with system extensions
All in all the performance hit isn't too bad unless you have lots of apps doing things at same time
Simon
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