On Wednesday December 31 at 01:54pm "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > on Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 06:52:04PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani > (bijan@psq.com) wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:38:23PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:36:03PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > > > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:53:11 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > > > Whether the *battle* is something you care about... that's for > > > > > you to decide. > > > > > > > > Which is why I restricted my comments to PCs only. With a > > > > single user PC, it is extremely unlikely to make a significant > > > > difference > > > > > > Until you add that second hard drive. > > > > Of course with a 200 or 250 Gig IDE hard disk, you're much less > > likely to need to do that :) > > Spoken like someone who's failed to grasp the concept of multiple > simultaneous IOs. > > Ever watch your system freeze for a quarter minute while swapping a > large process in or out? Nope :-D Thats what 768mb of RAM on a system thats only used as a desktop will get you. I run email, web, gcc compiles, and a bunch of other random programs on this computer, but leave a separate computer (200mhz AMD with 7 scsi drives) to do stuff like imap, http, https, webmail, ftp, mysql, php etc. -- -johann koenig Now Playing: Trevor Jones - Elk Hunt : Last Of The Mohicans Today is Setting Orange, the 73rd day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3169 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp
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