On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 21:35:22 -0700 "Julian Simioni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 7/9/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Agreed, of course, but one nice thing about extra ram that it might > > be pertinent to mention is that it can be used to cache and > > significantly reduce hard drive I/O once the cache is primed. > > > I just upgraded my system from 1GB to 2GB of DDR2 ... [ & ] I honestly > have noticed no difference in speed while using Gentoo, which is by > far my primary OS. I'm sure a detailed analysis would show at least > slight improvement in some cases, but it probably isn't worth the > upgrade. Yeah, my desktop (up 23 days, so cache has had time to fill) has only managed to cache about half a gig worth of stuff, leaving 200 megs or thereabouts unused. . Most instances of applications I run are the same hd data, like a thousand firefoxes, xterms, mail, etc. So I think the 'significant' part only kicks in if you run lots of different programs. I wouldn't expect my desktop to go any faster either, but I would expect a little speedup if I were running a heavier window manager or a full-blown DE like gnome or kde. It might make a bigger difference if you were running 3d games or something, I guess. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
