On Saturday 05 May 2007 10:15:41 Duncan wrote: > Actually, here, I have 8 gigs. That's a bit overkill. I'd probably > stick with four if I were doing it over, as over four gigs remains > entirely empty, most of the time, not even used for cache.
Glad to see I got it right, 3.5 years ago :-) Here also, my 4 GB is at least half-empty unless I'm compiling a large package like OO.o. My two single-core Opteron 246 CPUs have plenty of playing space. > Still, I have dual Opterons now, and was buying with dual-cores in mind. My experience suggests that you would still have been pretty comfortable with 4 GB. > 8 gig of memory should still be plenty with dual dual-cores, even out > three more years, ... Well, of course much can happen in that time, so you may be proved right after all. > which is when I expect to start getting serious about upgrading my entire > platform once again. Don't talk about it, all right? Just don't talk about it. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
