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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 00:24:26 -0800
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>I am considering upgrading from 16MB to 32MB of RAM... I thing that
>FreeBSD will get much faster because it will use plenty of cache and
>buffers. Anyone agrees?

   If you are using X heavily, then yes, 32MB does work much better.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project