> We're testing UDB and > the IBM people helping us with this project were very > insistent that we run the UDB/Linux guests at 2 gig.
This is bad advice. > goes against everything we've been told on this list to do. > I originally started out with 512meg guests. The increase to > 2 gig did improve response time but not to the point that it > was a speed demon. Increasing to 2 gig helped but it was not > a silver bullet. Increasing memory size will improve things...for a while. Once things start competing for resources -- which, by doing this, they have moved that time much closer than it needs to be -- things will get dramatically worse very quickly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
