Please don't top-post. On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 01:55 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The whole point is this: > > If you are using applications that regularly fill up your RAM and are > making extensive use of swap space then Yes! you will see a vast > improvement in performance if you up the RAM. > > The reason for this is that it takes less time to read from RAM than it > does to copy from swap space and then read from RAM. So the question > that really needs asking is this: > > How do I know if I'm regularly filling up my RAM?
One easy way is to open up an xterm and run the command "top". > On 11/1/2005, "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 15:40 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >> > How often do you deal with large data sets? > >> > >> What is a 'large data set'? I often see this term but not very sure > >> what it means... > > > >Any data that fills up your RAM is "large". > > > >For example, gqview uses *gobs* of memory trying to open an 80MB > >TIFF file. > > > >-- > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > >Ron Johnson, Jr. > >Jefferson, LA USA > >PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. > > > >"Why do we have to hide from the police, Daddy?" > >"Because we use vi, son. They use emacs." > > > > > >-- > >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum." "Therefore, whoever wishes for peace, let him prepare for war." Vegetius, "Epitoma Rei Militaris" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
