On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 01:39:02PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
So, as far as installing Linux is concerned, and running ordinary applications, pleae don't think you need to get anywhere near 1GB RAM for things to work.
Heh, just to add a thought to the mix, my desktop has 1.5GB of Ram mainly because I upgraded it to 1GB for Doom 3 in Linux (which the extra Ram did help a bit) and a friend of mine had a couple of 512 MB sticks of Ram lurking around doing nowthing so he gave them to me which took me up to the 1.5GB (only 3 memory slots in my desktop).
Anyhow, after this thread came up today i decided to see how much ram my machine was using, it turned out that I was using ~700 Megs of 850 (about 50% of this was cached so not really "in use" either)...
After a bit of investigation I realised that when I installed Ubuntu a month ago I didn't notice that the default kernel doesn't have highmem support so the machine had been running with "only" ~800 megs ever since. A quick grab of a highmem kernel and I'm back at 1.5GB, (currently 50% used and half of that is cached) but tbh, nowadays I don't notice how much ram i'm using :)
Adam