From: root@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel) Subject: Re: 486 with 33 Mhz and 16Mb or 50 Mhz and 8Mb? Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 10:22:20 GMT
wolff@liberator.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff) writes:
>This has big impact on the systems performance. After I upgraded to 20Mb,
>all my sessions remain swapped in, and after a while, gcc, include files
>and everything I used gets "swapped" into memory, and the only disk
>activity comes from the sync's that get executed every 30 seconds.....
How much do you benefit from RAM exceeding 16 MB? I am curious because
I could add another 4 MB in order to have 20, but I don't know if this
is worth while on an ISA architecture.
Regards, Markus.
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