Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 11:43:53 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Will an additional 4 MB help? Message-ID: <199512271943.LAA00127@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Dec 95 11:25:50 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.951227111555.203B-100000@ncc-1701-d>
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>I've been doing a lot more stuff in X lately, and find that it's quite >slow, especially when I'm trying to do a lot of stuff. I guess, then, >what my question would be is: would an additional 4 MB of memory help? > >Can anyone give me any sort of figures (I don't care if it's "real" >benchmarks, etc. or "gut feeling") on whether 12 MB would run >significantly faster vs. 8 MB. I don't do a LOT with my machine -- it's It'll make many things about 50-100% faster. >all my SIMMs and get bigger individual modules -- like getting 8 MB >modules instead of 4 MB's, or 16 MB modules (do they even have those >yet?). If I were able to afford this, then I might as well break down They've been making 64MB modules for more than a year. I have 4 of those here (in the soon-to-be new wcarchive). >So, I should probably get a 4 MB SIMM stick now, it'll probably help some >(maybe even dramatically). Then I can always add another 4 MB later, and >when the big jackpot hits, go for the Pentium. Right? Right. :-) -DG
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