From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 3 1:23:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4AEA37B401 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 01:23:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 90305 invoked by uid 100); 3 Sep 2001 08:23:12 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15251.15856.788048.319736@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 03:23:12 -0500 To: Morsal Roudbay Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding RAM and the result In-Reply-To: <78216641@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Morsal Roudbay types: > Hi > Right now I have a dual 300 MHz server running FBSD 4.3 with 128MB RAM... I > am considering to upgrade the RAM to 1GB.. > > Is this a good idea or should I spend the money on a new CPU instead? Are you running out of swap or cpu? Running vmstat inside of script while you're doing the things you want to make faster will provide a nice log to help you decide which you need more of for those tasks. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message