yuri wrote, On 22/07/09 22:48:
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.
Should be significantly faster because swap isn't used so much.
Won't do anything for actual processing time though.
Firefox is a memory pig - Mine's using ~400 MB ram right now an only
been running for a short time.
Ram is cheap - fill it up... Unless you're still running SDRAM or DDR1
which are significantly expensive. DDR2 ram is under $25 a GB.
640 is a funny number - do you have 128 MB on the motherboard or
something weird?
In short - more is better.
--
Craig Falconer
