Re: Use of Swap Space
On Sunday 01 February 2009 17:59:07 Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 02/01/2009 02:49 PM, Lee Glidewell wrote:
> >
> > No, the issue is that manufactures advertise in *1000, while computers
> > use
>
> Hard drive manufacturers, not RAM manufacturers.
>
> My beard's grey enough to remember when drive manufacturers measured
> drive capacity in binary KB, not decimal.
>
> > bytes in *1024. The recent convention that's come into place to represent
> > this is between Kilo/Mega/Giga-bytes (*1000) and Kibi/Mebi/Gibi-bytes
> > (*1024).
> >
> > So a stick of memory advertised as 4 Gigabytes is going to present itself
> > to your computer as 3.84 Gibibytes, roughly.
>
> If that were true, I'd have 8 * 10^9 bytes of RAM, and this
> demonstrates that error:
> <snipped work>
Okay, I stand corrected. I guess I had assumed that RAM was sold this way as
well, and hadn't bothered to do the math to check it.
You know what they say about people who assume. ;)
I'll go stand in the corner now.
Lee
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