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["Greg Wallace" <gregwallace@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday, January 01, 2006 @ 3:36 PM, Carlos Robinson wrote:

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>The Sunday 2006-01-01 at 13:47 -0900, Greg Wallace wrote:

>> I see.  Yes, I was confused about it.  Now I see what you're saying.
Based
>> on what you are saying, it would seem that the amount of spare memory you
>> had on your machine would be the determining factor, right?  I you had
lots
>> of spare memory, then it would seem that using the quickstarter wouldn't
>> impact your other activities; whereas, if you were constantly pushing the
>> limits on your memory, it would slow down your other apps.  Would that be
>> right?

>Exactly.

>The more memory you have available, the larger cache you get, and the less 
>physical usage of disk i/o. Linux benefits a lot from having lots of 
>memory. Thus, if you have a file server (an ftp server, for instance), and 
>have enough memory, your users will not have to wait till the disk can 
>attend their request. A real sample of that was commented not long ago 
>here.

>- -- 
>Cheers,
>       Carlos Robinson

Got it!  Thanks for the info.

Greg W