Re: More memory == better?

From: DevilKin (DevilKin@gmx.net)
Date: Tue Oct 23 2001 - 12:46:54 EST

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On Tuesday 23 October 2001 18:15, antirez wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 06:10:38PM +0200, DevilKin wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > I must say that even with most of my applications loaded/running, the
> > system never even touches the swap partition.
> >
> > So, would it be wise?
>
> If the applications you run are very disk-intensive probably the
> answer is yes, since free memory is used as disk cache.

Not really no... Just the average desktop stuff... some programming now and
again...

And games ofcourse :-)

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