"Eric L. Strobel" wrote:
>
> on 10/26/00 8:28 PM, Edgar Peinelt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >> I have had really good luck with it on everything from my G3 Powerbook
> >> running 9 to my Duo 280c with 8.1 and Powerbook 160 with 7.5.5. It is
> >> really
> >> nice for the older models with very limited RAM and small hard drives. It
> >> does not take the big chunk out of your hard drive like VM does. I can have
> >> 20 MB of "RAM" on my 160 (with only 10 MB of real RAM) when I only have a
> >> few
> >> MB free on my hard drive. It will still only let you run individual
> >> programs
> >> that require less than your actual amount of RAM. I think it works better
> >> with older systems which had poorer VM handling.
> >> It originally only doubled your RAM, but can now triple it with the newest
> >> versions.
> > All this is true, but like VM also RD slows down your computer's
> > performance considerably. Plus, it may conflict with certain extensions
> > and applications (esp. those configured to have their own virtual memory
> > management). Consider it as a last resort when your machine's physical
> > RAM cannot be extended any further.
> > Just my 2p after years of using the consecutive versions of RD.
> > Edgar
> >
>
> As always, people's "mileage" varies. I've never seen any evidence, on any
> system at home or at work, where RD caused ANY instability. The only app
> I'm aware of that ever had problems with RD was Photoshop, but that also had
> problems w/ Apple's VM. And it's been fixed in recent versions. (Besides,
> who in the world is going to be using Photoshop on most Duos, the 2300
> excepted, of course.) Also, there's a body of objective tests out there,
> done by the various Mac rags a while back, that shows RD's "slowdown" is
> *maybe* 1%. That is, totally unnoticable. You'll lose way more time than
> that futzing around in a smaller memory space. And you'll be slowed more
> than that by Apple's VM, because Apple's goes to disk only. Oh yeah, and
> since RD doesn't hit your HD except in extreme situations, you should have
> better battery life. And we mustn't forget the many MB of disk you have to
> devote to Apple's VM (24-32 MB may not seem like much, but it's 10% of the
> HD space on most Duos!).
>
I think it's a very good review!
-Laurent.
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