Monday, December 27, 1999, 4:38:35 AM, Ali wrote:
> stable than before and this is most likely because the machines today
> come with at least 32MB of memory. In fact 64MB seems to be the
> standard. On top of that win98 is inherently more stable than it's
> predecessors.
Ever wonder why the prebuilts put so little RAM in their computers?
Because when the computers hit swap, they slow down. The normal end consumer
sees the machine slow and pulls out the tired car analogy. "Well, if the CPU
is the engine, if I want to go faster I need to get a faster engine. I need a
faster CPU!" At which time they dutifully trade in their PII-300 w/24Mb RAM
(I've seen it!) for a spiffy new PIII-600 with..... 32Mb RAM! In about a year
they repeat the process.
Personally my work and home workstations both have 128Mb of RAM. Swap?
What's that? One is NT, one is 98. My Linux server has 64Mb in it and it
only touches swap every once and a while.
Want to know a secret?
My Linux box could take up to 128Mb and its MB is years old. It has a
P5-100 in it that I bought before the PIIs came out. My workstation, a
Celeron-400a, has a MB that can accommodate 768Mb.
The single cheapest and easiest way to speed up a machine is to put more
RAM into it. MBs these days can take up .7-1Gb of RAM. So why is 32Mb-64Mb
"standard"? ;)
> To minimize fragmenting in the system partition, in my last win98 days, I
> had moved all temp files and confined V Swapping to one partition and then
> defragged that partition regularly. This and 64MB of RAM at the time reduced
> crashes to a bearable minimum. :)
Try 128Mb and no swapping. I have crashed from other areas, but that is
most likely from my sound card being an original AWE-32 with two 256kb SIMMs
that I bought new just for that card. ;)
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