From: sehh of H.I.C. & D.B.S. (sehh_at_altered.com)
Date: Sat Apr 01 2000 - 12:38:34 EST
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:01:18 -1000 (HST), Vincent Poy wrote:
> I run lots of apps under W98 and I did the Crucial upgrade on my
>770Z with the 128 meg upgrade twice. The first one putting it up to 256MB
>helped a little and was a NEC Module. The second time, it was a Micron
>module. I wonder if there is any performance differences between the two
>since the second time even after going to 320 MB's, it didn't seem to make
>a difference.
Its true that things may be faster on a system with more memory, for example
>from 32 to 64 or 64 to 128. But higher than 128 or 256 will depend on your applications.
Remember that more memory doesn't mean the computer will read or calculate
data any faster. It just has more memory to store things temporarily.
More memory in reality means more applications can run at the same time, or
applications that require huge amounts of memory will run without swapping.
The difference of speed comes from eliminating swapping when you add more
memory. On systems with 128megs of ram, the average user shouldn't even
need to swap!
My 600E with 64megs of ram with OS/2 doesn't use swap memory unless i load
lots of server applications and do heavy internet stuff. When i use it for normal
applications memory usage doesn't exceed 45 megs. And it shouldn't.
A DB2 server serving a T1 with a few million transactions shouldn't need more
than 160megs of ram.
Ofcourse considering you are using OS/2 or Linux... ;>
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