Suggested partioning for 3 drives and RAM suggestions

[Net Llama!]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Collins wrote:
> On Sunday 28 December 2003 10:33, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> > Net Llama! wrote:
>
> > >At any rate, my current primary desktop box at home maxed out at 512, and
> > >i sorely miss the extra memory.  My desktop boxes at work all have 1GB or
> > >even 2GB, and the difference is noticable, even with XFCE4.
> >
> > That's amazing ! I'm running XFCE4 with 512MB of RAM and 3 SCSI drives
> > (9GB each). I find that having SCSI drives makes a lot of difference --
> > not sure about the RAM because I haven't tried putting 1 GB of RAM in my
> > box.
> >
>
> Just curious what workload maxes out your desktop box at home and what
> workload at work benefits especially from 1GB+ memory?

None.  Its the native behavior of the 2.4.x kernel that it will use/cache
all of the available physical memory, over time.  At this very moment, on
my home box, free shows:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           502        496          6          0          0        341
-/+ buffers/cache:        155        347
Swap:          332        110        221

This box has been up for nearly 22 days.  All i'm running at the moment is
mozilla, XFCE4, a few aterms, and several bit torrent instances.  At work,
I also run XFCE4 with mozilla, several aterms, and open office
occasionally,but that's about it.

> I was skeptical about buying my new machine with only 256M, but it was a
> bargain, and the seller discounted it even more for the price of the
> additional memory.  Now that I've used it a few weeks, I find that relatively
> little swap is used and most everything is quite responsive, even using kde.

My system is responsive.  I really don't notice the swapping at all, but
it is most definitely happening.

> Someday, when money is a little more plentiful, I'll bump up the memory, but I
> can't say that I miss it at the moment.

Everyone thinks so until they get more, and then they're amazed at the
difference.

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