In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gervase Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: > > > MacWorld, and MacAddict magazine both say that The more System RAM you > > have available for UNIX to use the better it runs. In fact they suggest > > the bare minimum install on any platform for Unix to Run efficiently is > > 256MB. > > > This is patently false. Cut-down Linux distributions can run in 4Mb for > a command line, 8Mb for X, on a 486. Normal current Linux distributions > probably need a 32Mb Pentium, but to suggest they need 256Mb is laughable. Right. I think the main source of confusion is that Mac OS X uses RAM very differently compared to Mac OS Classic and Windows. Those systems try to minimize RAM usage even if there is free RAM available. Mac OS X uses the RAM if it is available. If one observes this behavior with the expectation that the system tries to minimize RAM usage, it looks like there is never enough RAM for Mac OS X. -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clinet.fi/~henris/
