[rescue] several second lag...

Ken Hansen rescue at sunhelp.org
Sun Aug 5 11:49:40 CDT 2001


Wait - I are you saying I *don't* need 1 Gig of RAM in my Ultra 2? ;^)

Ken
(I'm kidding, I know I don't need 1 Gig of RAM, but it is sucha nice, round
number... ;^)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 2:17 AM
Subject: Re: [rescue] several second lag...


> On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 02:06:00AM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> > At this point, I'm remebering when I recently scolded for commenting
about
> > 40megs not being much, and now I'm being scolded for thinking that 64
megs
> > is enough.  Which is it?  Is the 40-64 meg range enough for normal work
or
> > not?  I think it should be enough personally I mean, web pages and email
> > don't take that much memory.
>
> It entirely depends on the OS and the applications you're running.
>
> For a *nix, you generally need WAY less memory than on a Windows box,
> due to OS and application bloat.



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