you actually lose about 128Mb ram (128Mb HIGHMEM) if you don't specify the
4gig option, and you might find that you'd rather have the extra memory
than the "noticeable?" slowdown. I set all my 1G boxes to 4G mostly because
i put that amount of ram because i need every bit.
Regards,
Zwane Mwaikambo
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