Hi Patrick, At home, I run a P133 with 48 meg, but most of the time only text, because of my bad monitor and card. At work, I run a P133 with 128 meg SDRAM. _That_ is just perfect, although I still need swap (and 28 meg of swap is not enough.. :-( ). Netscape (4.61 I believe) needs a restart almost every day, or else swap gets full, and the machine starts to freeze. A P133 is fast enough for X with Netscape (and StarOffice, but I only tried it (quite cool)) and al kinds of servers like web, ftp, dns, irc etc, so I guess you should buy the extra memory if you think your computer is worth it (especially the monitor/vcard imho).
HTH. Groets, Ookhoi > > In your case of course, more memory would show *huge* speed increases. It > > looks like another 32 megs would stop the immediate swapping problem. If you > > want to run StarOffice, I imagine another 16 to 32 megs above that is > > required. I don't have star office installed myself, so I can't check for > > you. :( (one more week... :) > > I have StarOffice on a very similar machine. This is the report it > gives: > > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 30264 29616 648 24884 128 17600 > -/+ buffers/cache: 11888 18376 > Swap: 128484 5192 123292 > > I got there by this: > 1. boot Linux (was running DOS game, sorry) > 2. log into xdm and start StarOffice > 3. open a new (empty) text document > 4. switch to tty1 and login to run free > > It looks like StarOffice is quite a memory hog too. It sounds like 64MB > is enough to make Netscape happy. > > Based on the free output above, do you think 96MB would be enough to keep > swapping to a minimum with StarOffice thrown in? If you're not sure, I'd > be happy to wait a week or so until you have StarOffice installed. > > > If you can afford it, the new mobo+cpu+ram would probably be the right thing > > to do. > > Actually, my crazy idea was running my existing CPU in a new board for a > while until I want to (and can afford to) upgrade it. But unless the new > board has 3 ISA slots, I don't think I want to do that. Adding a net > card, sound card and 56K modem to about $280 for the board, CPU and RAM is > a bit to much. > > Thank you, > Patrick Olson > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null