Tim wrote: > I guess I find it ridiculous you're complaining about ram when I can > purchase 4gb for under 50 dollars on a desktop.
For many people around the world US$50 is a very significant amount of money. That also assumes the have the money to buy (or have already done so) a motherboard that will take 4G of RAM. What if they have a laptop, even one that isn't that old (say 3 years) it probably can't take that amount of memory. Just because US$50 doesn't seem a lot to you it is to some people. I have a quite old machine with an AMD Athlon 900MHz with 640Mb of RAM serving up NFS, WebDAV locally to my house and running my webserver (Apache) in a Zone. For me performance is perfectly acceptable, but this isn't an interactive desktop. Not only is performance acceptable when I moved all the data (photos, etc) off the internal disk of my (PPC) Mac Mini to the NFSv3 accessed ZFS system things on the mac actually got faster. But surely I could afford to by a machine with 4gb of RAM after all it is only US$50 right ? Yes I could but why should I need to buy more hardware when I can use what I already have and not fill up more land file with non RoHS components (most of this machine, everything other than the CPU fan is more than 5 years old). -- Darren J Moffat _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
