yuri wrote:
What kind of performance boost should I expect when upgrading from
256MB of RAM to 640MB?
This is with KDE 3.9.10, running Firefox 3.5.1 most of the time and
also Amarok 1.4.10 playing music in the background.
We often have myself logged in on VT7 and Julia logged in on VT8 also
running Firefox.
I assume Alt-Tabbing between apps should be faster with more RAM.
I'd also expect Ctrl-Alt-F7 / Ctrl-Alt-F8 to switch between my login
and Julia's should be faster, and they seem to be but it's all
subjective.
What should I be looking for?
Yuri
Well, Firefox is known to be a bit of a RAM hog, especialy if you're
like me and tend to use lots of tabs and have your session open for days.
I run several linux machines in my house from 256MB in my server
(Registered ECC SDRAM is hard to find theese days) up to 8GB in my new
server.
I'vefound 512mb is generaly more than sufficient for most linux desktops
that arn't used for anything else.
