From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 11 15:37:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3C0016A4CE for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 15:37:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out011.verizon.net (out011pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FE3243D5C for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 15:37:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([68.160.193.218]) by out011.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040911153724.XESE14580.out011.verizon.net@[192.168.1.3]>; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 10:37:24 -0500 Message-ID: <41431BA6.70100@mac.com> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 11:37:10 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Bill Schmitt (SW)" References: <4142C74C.8010701@schmittnet.com> In-Reply-To: <4142C74C.8010701@schmittnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out011.verizon.net from [68.160.193.218] at Sat, 11 Sep 2004 10:37:24 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need advice X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 15:37:25 -0000 Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: [ ... ] > Considering all of that, my questions are: > - Am I being unrealistic in choosing a machine with a 300MHz processor? No. But a faster CPU wouldn't hurt, either. > - If I add another 128MB of memory, should I expect to see a dramatic > improvement? Adding more memory is probably the most cost-effective way of improving performance. > - Could the graphics adapter itself be the bottleneck? Yes. A video card with 2MB of RAM is obsolete by today's standards. > - If I picked up a newer graphics adapter that was supported by xorg, > would a switch to 5.x and/or xorg be expected to pick up the speed a bit? A switch to 5.x is likely to slow things down. Switching to xorg might help a little. -- -Chuck