Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 17:38:45 +0200 From: Morsal Roudbay <morsal@swipnet.se> To: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding RAM and the result Message-ID: <20010903173845.D18871@zigman.2y.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010903082137.mj@isy.liu.se> References: <20010903031108.A57434@zigman.2y.net> <XFMail.010903082137.mj@isy.liu.se>
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It's hard to choose... :) RAM, CPU or harddrive... wish I had the money to upgrade them all, hehe. On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 08:21:37AM +0200, Micke Josefsson wrote: > systat -vm should give you an idea of the memory usage. If it swaps (a lot) > you'd be happy installing more memory. Also use top to find out each program's > memory requirements. My guess is that installing another 128M is enough. > > systat -vm will also show you how busy the disk(s) are. It is quite possible > that the io-subsystem is a bottleneck and not the cpu speed. OTOH 300MHz is not > much by todays standards... > > /Micke > > > On 03-Sep-01 Morsal Roudbay wrote: > > 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? > > > > I often compile several ports at the same time and I run many > > X-applications. I use this server for network stability testing too... > > (running several rain processes that eat lots of RAM) Oh, forgot to mention > > that it's a web, mysql, mail and DNS server too. :) > > > > (faster compile times is probably priority no 1) > > > > Best regards, > > > > Morsal > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > ---------------------------------- > Michael Josefsson, MSEE > mj@isy.liu.se > > This message was sent by XFMail > running on FreeBSD 4.4-RC > ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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