Messages in this thread | | | From | DevilKin <> | Subject | Re: More memory == better? | Date | Tue, 23 Oct 2001 22:04:12 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 23 October 2001 21:49, bill davidsen wrote: > In article <20011023161340.02EAC9BD76@pop3.telenet-ops.be>, > > DevilKin <DevilKin@gmx.net> wrote: > | Currently I've got myself a nice setup (amd 1.4ghz, abit kg7raid etc etc) > | with 512mb ram... (DDR). I'm wondering if increasing this to 1gb has > | advantages (speedwise or anything), since I can get my hands on it at a > | very low price... > | > | I must say that even with most of my applications loaded/running, the > | system never even touches the swap partition. > | > | So, would it be wise? > > There are some good reasons to add memory. > > - disk i/o rates. vmstat will tell you some disk i/o rates, if they are > high you *may* get better performance with more memnory for cache. > > - future applications. As you say it's cheap right now, if you think > there's a good chance of larger images, more kernel compiles, whatever, > buy now. > > - memory bandwidth. This is very motherboard dependent, read your specs. > Some systems will use two or four way interleave to increase bandwidth > to memory or reduce access time. See what your m/b spec tells you. > > - you have the money and want to spend it on {something}! Go ahead, > memory is one of the best investments for any system. > > Just remember that to use this memory you need a large memory kernel.
Ah, thats with HIGHMEM support? I've read a lot of awful things about it here... how stable (aka usable) is it?
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