On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 03:26 PM, Charles Martin wrote: > The hard drive *does* have some effect on internet speed because of the > amount of disk caching going on. More disk caching = slower > performance. RAM caching is much, much quicker. > > In Mac OS X, 2.5 gigs is not a lot of working room, just barely enough > to operate normally IMHO. I don't recall if the OP was running X or > not, but my comment was that if he has 2.5 Gigs left he is clearly > outgrowing it. This comment was made based on the assumption that he > has a 10GB drive or larger. Obviously if he has a 3GB drive and 2.5 of > it is free, the comment is invalid.
objective benchmarking has shown that performance isn't affected in OS X until you have less hard drive space than about 1.5X your physical memory.... that is, if you have 256MB of RAM, 384MB of free hard drive space is fine. if you have 512, 640MB of free space is fine. etc. -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:imac-list@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:imac-list-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:imac-list-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
