RAM

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (dsr at tao.merseine.nu)]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 05:26:36PM +0000, Kalyan Vaidyanathan wrote:
> Hi,
>  I have a Dell Dimension 8100 desktop with 1.3 GHz.  I have redhat 8.0 and 
> Windows ME.  I am thinking of upgrading my memory.  I currently have 128MB 
> RAM. Since it is ME, Microsoft says that max recommended is 512 MB.
>  I would like to use my linux box to install and run Tomcat and a java ide. 
>  Do you think 512 (+128 existing) should be sufficient for reasonable 
> productivity?

First, no amount of extra RAM is going to hurt performance unless
Microsoft is doing something very twisted. Linux will happily use as
much extra as you install.

I find that 384MB is comfortable for most home desktops these days, but
512MB is pretty cheap, so go right ahead.

-dsr-

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