who else has 2 gig worth of ram lol

fenderman11111 · 11-15-2005, 12:13 AM

i have 512 MB of RAM.

This is enough to :

-run a fluxbox session + gnome-settings-daemon
-run windows XP inside of vmware
-run galeon, gaim, and a few instances of gnome-terminal

without having a swap partition.

In fact, i've never used more than about 60% of my RAM, no matter what I'm running.

all that to say, 2GB is basically useless unless you're running something like Protools.

sigsegv · 11-15-2005, 11:39 AM

2GB isn't useless by any definition of the word. The way Linux (and pretty much every other OS out there) uses RAM for filesystem cache and a whole host of other things makes the old saying "you can never have too much memory" pretty much true.

On 512MB if you've never seen more than ~300MB used you must have your XP VM down to what? 96MB?

mrchaos · 11-16-2005, 11:30 AM

see below post: double post

mrchaos · 11-16-2005, 11:31 AM

@cs-cam

what if you have a little bit of current running through the RAM chips all the time (even while powered-down)? Then you could use it as storage space... of course, when the power goes out, you're screwed haha