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Run top on your system, see if you are using a lot of swap. If you are then you'd certainly benifit greatly from more ram. If your not then it probably won't make that much of a difference.
I know I am not using a swap file cuz I made a boo boo when I first installed this slack system. although I do have an extra 3 gig hd laying around, I can use that for swap.
Well then... do you ever have applications get killed because you run out of memory? Do you have a swap partition? Or was that the boo boo?
Linux uses swap as a last resort, so you could be *ok* without it.. but it is always nice to have so the last application that asks for memory doesn't just get killed.
No, Ive never had any applications shut down or any problems with running out of memory and I do not have a swap partition (yup, that was the boo boo) and top shows no swap space of course.
If you've got 512Mg of RAM then you should be OK. As jtshaw indicated, unless you are regularly exhausting your current RAM, adding more won't make any difference.
In general, I would consider 512Mg of RAM to be more than adequate for pretty much all users. 256Mg is typical, 1G is a luxury, anything over that would be an embarrassment of riches. At least today -- J.W.
Originally posted by J.W. If you've got 512Mg of RAM then you should be OK. As jtshaw indicated, unless you are regularly exhausting your current RAM, adding more won't make any difference.
In general, I would consider 512Mg of RAM to be more than adequate for pretty much all users. 256Mg is typical, 1G is a luxury, anything over that would be an embarrassment of riches. At least today -- J.W.
Yea, 1 gig will probably make no difference but I figure I might slap them in if I do go ahead with my upgrade on my gaming system and have the extra 512 handy.
Right on - more RAM is always a good thing, although admittedly if your current apps aren't using it all it's kind of unnecessary.
That being said though, it's unnecessary in the same sense as owning a Ferrari even if you're stuck in 30 mph traffic on the 405. Right about the Wilshire exit. Having extra power even if you don't need it is always cool. -- J.W.
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although I do have an extra 3 gig hd laying around, I can use that for swap. 
