[wplug] How much performance increase with more memory?

[John Strange]

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I would suggest trying MWAVE memory, they seem to be compatible with
Dell laptops, you can call and check and it's much cheaper.  SDRAM isn't
like making PC3500 DDR timings, so you can get good quality SDRAM now
for a lot cheaper than what the main manufacturers are chugging out.

- John

On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 12:44, Scott F. Kiesling wrote:
> I have about an average amount of stuff open now, using 80MB swap. So it
> looks like memory for me.
> 
> On price: You can get 128 for 35-40. But the Inspiron has two slots, and
> I'm using both, so I'd need 2x128 or a 256, and the quote for a 256 is
> $100 (so I get $200 from putting in 512MB, the max).
> 
> Also, I'm already using both slots (32MB and 96MB). I could replace the
> 32 with a 128, I guess. Couldn't hurt much given the price.
> 
> SFK
> 
> On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 12:26, Tim Lesher wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 10:01:34AM -0400, Scott F. Kiesling wrote:
> > > 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? 
> > 
> > One good way to find out is to put your machine under reasonable load
> > and do 'cat /proc/meminfo'.  Do this a few times, while doing some
> > reasonably heavy things.  Then look at the results.  In particular,
> > look at the amount of swap being used.  If you're using more than,
> > say, 64MB of swap on your system, you should probably upgrade.
> > Particularly with OpenOffice, you'll probably find that this is the
> > case--I think the sweet spot will probably be around 256.
> > 
> > I don't know where you're getting your $200 figure from, by the way,
> > but I'm pretty sure that memory for that model should be a bit cheaper
> > than that... For example, PC Connection lists a 128MB DIMM for an
> > Inspiron 5000 at $35.00, and Dell sells them for only five dollars
> > more...
> > 
> > -- 
> > Tim Lesher <tim at lesher.ws>
> > http://www.lesher.ws
> > 
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