[ale] Upgrading RAM?
David Tomaschik
ozone at webgroup.org
Tue Jul 17 13:42:52 EDT 2007
Slightly OT, but I'm trying to decide if it's worth it to upgrade the
RAM in my desktop. The machine is a 2.8GHz P4 (HT) and currently has
1GB of PC3200. It has 750GB of disk, and a fairly normal report from
'free' looks something like:
$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1011 920 90 0 71 339
-/+ buffers/cache: 509 501
Swap: 2008 455 1552
From newegg, 2x512 would run me about $55, 2x1GB for about $105. I
realize there's a lot of RAM sitting in buffers and cache, but it also
seems to throw a lot out to swap. I mainly use the machine for
development, web browsing, email (Thunderbird probably uses 1/3 of my
system memory at any given time), and for remote file access (via SSH).
Is it worth upgrading?
David
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