Mike, > The thing with ram though is that you need to make sure that > it is fast ram, or have a lot of it will not speed things up. > Having 10 GB of DDR PC2700 won't be as fast as 3 GB of DDR3 > PC 6700.
RAM's power is in reducing or eliminating I/O, so the more there is of it, the more effective it can be towards this end. While RAM speed is also important, and a given amount of RAM of one speed will outperform the same amount of lower speed RAM, increasing the amount of one or the other does not further increase or decrease the speed difference. > But yes, the price of ram has come down and with a > powerful enough CPU and 2.5 times the amount of ram you need > for one OS then you can have a Host OS and a Virtual Machine > of the same or less system specs. VM switches virtual address spaces between multiple operating systems, and as such can manage any number of operating systems. The speed with which these OS's run is dramatically affected by whether the OS, running applications code, and data are stored in memory or must be retrieved from disk, even the paging system. Bill > Regards, > > Mike Wohlrab _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
