I believe the rule of thumb is you need at least as much free disk space as you have memory, plus anything the OS or software needs for caching. I have a policy here where if a drive goes below 10 gigs, my Spiceworks inventory begins to throw alarms.
Bob On May 11, 2012, at 1:14 PM, François Chaplais wrote: > > Le 11 mai 2012 à 22:00, stephen barncard a écrit : > >> thanks Ken. Internal drives don't have lights these days. Wish they did - >> it would save time to know when something clearly isn't happening. The >> powers that be decided that wasn't needed anymore. >> The tip at your link looks promising, as I'd rather manage my own 6 gigs of >> memory and will happily rather crash rather than put up with this virtual >> memory crap. > Now that you mention your 6 gigs, I remember that my MBP was painfully > sloooow under *snow leopard* when equipped with "only" 4 gigs. I upgraded to > 8 gigs, put some background gadgets out of activity, and everything is OK > now. > In any case I think that some extra memory is always a good investment. > Cheers > François > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
