Re: [tlug] linux notebooks, virtualization, windows

["Daniel A. Ramaley" <daniel.ramaley@example.com>]

On 2010-08-03 at 07:47:19, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>YMMV, but "buy more memory" is a rule of thumb that has saved a lot of
>brain sweat for me. :-)

I'll second that rule of thumb. I built a machine in 1998. Friends told 
me i was crazy to put 512 MB of RAM in it (the maximum the board could 
handle). But i never regretted the decision. That machine lasted me 
nearly 10 years without any serious upgrades, mostly because it had so 
much RAM. I built a new machine a couple years ago and maxed out the 
motherboard with 8 GB. So far i've been very happy with that decision. 
Being able to run multiple memory-intensive jobs and not hitting swap is 
a wonderful thing. Having a large enough cache that the disk hardly ever 
gets touched is also a wonderful thing. Buy as much memory as your 
budget can tolerate.

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