Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB -> 1 GB lead to better performance?
Please don't top-post.
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 01:55 +0000, debian@lamie.net 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.
>
> The reason for this is that it takes less time to read from RAM than it
> does to copy from swap space and then read from RAM. So the question
> that really needs asking is this:
>
> How do I know if I'm regularly filling up my RAM?
One easy way is to open up an xterm and run the command "top".
> On 11/1/2005, "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
> >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 an 80MB
> >TIFF file.
> >
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