From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 27 11:44:01 1995 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA11778 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 11:44:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA11744 Wed, 27 Dec 1995 11:43:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.50]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id LAA09964; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 11:43:53 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.7.3/8.6.5) with SMTP id LAA00127; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 11:43:53 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199512271943.LAA00127@corbin.Root.COM> To: Donald Burr cc: FreeBSD Questions , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Will an additional 4 MB help? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 27 Dec 95 11:25:50 PST." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 11:43:53 -0800 Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >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