At 7:53 PM -0400 9/5/99, Charlie Romero wrote:
>What is an optimal setup for ram?
The more the better. ;-)
>I'm looking for quicker results returned to the client. With a
>database of 1G and fast drives, how is ram allocated in Linux? This
>is a dedicated machine
Free RAM in many OSes, including Linux, is used for file caching. If
a substantial part of your database and/or the htsearch CGI itself
ends up in the RAM cache, it won't hit the disk and searches will be
much faster. Additionally, if you have more RAM, you're much less
likely to swap (you don't mention if this is a problem).
I don't know that it's possible to estimate how much return you'll
get for each MB or whatever. But you'll probably see a continued (if
not linear) return for more RAM.
-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/
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