[wplug] How much performance increase with more memory?

John Harrold jmh17 at pitt.edu
Tue Apr 15 10:25:41 EDT 2003


Sometime in April Scott F. Kiesling assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| I am running Gentoo on a Dell Inspiron 5000, Pentium 3, 128M RAM. I use
| Blackbox for X and the applications I use most frequently are Evolution,
| OpenOffice, Phoenix, XMMS, and Praat (a speech analysis program). If I
| upgrade my memory to 256 or 512, does the WPLUG public think I will see
| signficant gains in speed? That is, should I spend the $200, or wait for
| a while and get a new machine? 
| 
| Scott

how much stuff do you want to have open at once? if you like having 15 web
browsers, a couple instances of emacs, play movies and a few star/open
office documents, etc simultaneously, then you could probably benefit from
the ram. linux is pretty good about using any extra ram for caching files,
so there will at least be marginal benefit even if you don't like to run
lots of applications. i'm not sure how much the caching would help you on a
machine that presumably reboots frequently though. 


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