Thanks for the reply.
> In your case of course, more memory would show *huge* speed increases. It
> looks like another 32 megs would stop the immediate swapping problem. If you
> want to run StarOffice, I imagine another 16 to 32 megs above that is
> required. I don't have star office installed myself, so I can't check for
> you. :( (one more week... :)
I have StarOffice on a very similar machine. This is the report it
gives:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 30264 29616 648 24884 128 17600
-/+ buffers/cache: 11888 18376
Swap: 128484 5192 123292
I got there by this:
1. boot Linux (was running DOS game, sorry)
2. log into xdm and start StarOffice
3. open a new (empty) text document
4. switch to tty1 and login to run free
It looks like StarOffice is quite a memory hog too. It sounds like 64MB
is enough to make Netscape happy.
Based on the free output above, do you think 96MB would be enough to keep
swapping to a minimum with StarOffice thrown in? If you're not sure, I'd
be happy to wait a week or so until you have StarOffice installed.
> If you can afford it, the new mobo+cpu+ram would probably be the right thing
> to do.
Actually, my crazy idea was running my existing CPU in a new board for a
while until I want to (and can afford to) upgrade it. But unless the new
board has 3 ISA slots, I don't think I want to do that. Adding a net
card, sound card and 56K modem to about $280 for the board, CPU and RAM is
a bit to much.
Thank you,
Patrick Olson
