By using that low of a ram, you place a load on the swap file. This is used to
store the running programs while switching back and forth between. In essence,
you spend a lot of time storeing and fetching from the hd and not processing.
512 should be the minimum you use. I am at 1 gig on both machines now and see
very little if any swap activity. That ofcourse depends on how many things you
want to run concurrently together and how many users will access it at once.
Take the plunge and up the ram, you will be glad you did.
thaelin
Jeanette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 256 mb of ram is on the low side for most
operating systems. I know
some people will run KDE or Gnome desktop on 256 mb of ram but I think
its performance would be disappointing.
But if you don't want to spend money to upgrade the ram then by all
means consider a lower resource linux like xubuntu.
A 1.7 mhz processor is more then sufficent to run Linux. The slowest
cpu I have here is 400 mhz and its adequate to run Linux with a light
weight desktop like XFCE or Flux or Icewm
babu c k wrote:
>
>
> Thank you very much for your reply Jeanette . But only upgrading of RAM
> will boost up my system performance ?
>
> Jeanette > wrote:
> Jeanette wrote:
>
> Babu you have plenty of processor but the 256 mb of ram is on the low
> side. You could run gnome or kde desktop but it will be slow.
>
> I would look into something like xubuntu which is easy to use and uses
> the XFCE desktop which is lower in resources.
>
> If you were to add another 256 mb of ram you could run just about any
> linux. I like Ubuntu or Kubuntu.
>
> Babu wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > sir,
> > i wanna know which linux is good for me. I have a 32 bit processor
> > with 256 ddr ram and 1.7 ghz processor.
> > i will be very thankful to u if u tel me which latest version of linux
> > will be well suitable for me.
> >
> >
>
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