On Tuesday 18 September 2007 18:45, Sloan wrote:
JJB wrote:
Would there be any advantage in putting more than 1 gigabyte of RAM in a Suse 10.2 box? I understand that the RAM usage is generally low.
Depends on what you're asking it to do. 1 GB is probably just fine for for a power user, i.e. someone who has several virtual desktops running and something happening on each one, and uses some deanding apps - but some of the suse boxes I'm running have 8 GB and would be happier with 16 GB, since they run some demanding applications and are getting hammered all day long.
Joe
Yes, it is the use case that will tell how much is necessary. Here is mine. With 32 bit kernel 1 GB is fine with one virtual machine running GNOME version of openSUSE 10.3 using 400 MB of RAM. I can use desktop without problems. The same with 64 bit kernel is a bit short, as applications are bigger, ie. lesser memory is left for virtual machine making it slower. Luckilly virtual machine support for 64 bit OS is not working, so there is no problems with VirtualBox, and QEMU can run only in slow full virtualization mode. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org