When you can get 512MB sticks of PC133 for $25 there should never be a reason to have caching from insufficient memory. If you were paying the prices of 5 years ago then you would definitely get diminishing returns from under utilized RAM but not these days.
-----Original Message----- From: Terry Harris [mailto:terry.harris@;iname.com] Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 4:00 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Protel99se and win2k fun etc etc On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:09:07 -0400, matt wrote: >(1) You should get as much memory as you can afford. With modern OS's like >Win2k and WinXP the performance of the machine scales directly with the >amount of memory you have. There is no direct scaling. Once you have enough memory to avoid thrashing then additional memory just avoids some disk access with rapidly diminishing returns. If you are not seeing significant disk activity while working additional memory will provide no performance increase. Cheers, Terry. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:proteledaforum@;techservinc.com * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:ForumAdministrator@;TechServInc.com * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@;techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
