Re: more RAM = more speed?
Hi Patrick,
At home, I run a P133 with 48 meg, but most of the time only text,
because of my bad monitor and card. At work, I run a P133 with 128 meg
SDRAM. _That_ is just perfect, although I still need swap (and 28 meg of
swap is not enough.. :-( ). Netscape (4.61 I believe) needs a restart
almost every day, or else swap gets full, and the machine starts to
freeze. A P133 is fast enough for X with Netscape (and StarOffice, but I
only tried it (quite cool)) and al kinds of servers like web, ftp, dns,
irc etc, so I guess you should buy the extra memory if you think your
computer is worth it (especially the monitor/vcard imho).
HTH.
Groets, Ookhoi
> > In your case of course, more memory would show *huge* speed increases. It
> > looks like another 32 megs would stop the immediate swapping problem. If you
> > want to run StarOffice, I imagine another 16 to 32 megs above that is
> > required. I don't have star office installed myself, so I can't check for
> > you. :( (one more week... :)
>
> I have StarOffice on a very similar machine. This is the report it
> gives:
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 30264 29616 648 24884 128 17600
> -/+ buffers/cache: 11888 18376
> Swap: 128484 5192 123292
>
> I got there by this:
> 1. boot Linux (was running DOS game, sorry)
> 2. log into xdm and start StarOffice
> 3. open a new (empty) text document
> 4. switch to tty1 and login to run free
>
> It looks like StarOffice is quite a memory hog too. It sounds like 64MB
> is enough to make Netscape happy.
>
> Based on the free output above, do you think 96MB would be enough to keep
> swapping to a minimum with StarOffice thrown in? If you're not sure, I'd
> be happy to wait a week or so until you have StarOffice installed.
>
> > If you can afford it, the new mobo+cpu+ram would probably be the right thing
> > to do.
>
> Actually, my crazy idea was running my existing CPU in a new board for a
> while until I want to (and can afford to) upgrade it. But unless the new
> board has 3 ISA slots, I don't think I want to do that. Adding a net
> card, sound card and 56K modem to about $280 for the board, CPU and RAM is
> a bit to much.
>
> Thank you,
> Patrick Olson
>
>
>
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