Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!voder!pyramid!leadsv!esl!esl.ESL.COM!dml From: dml@esl.com (Denis Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: how does adding extra memory affect performance? Message-ID: Date: 31 May 90 20:58:50 GMT References: <93@isl.stanford.edu> Sender: news@esl.ESL.COM Reply-To: dml@esl.com Distribution: usa Organization: ESL Inc., Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 24 In-reply-to: awang@isl.Stanford.EDU's message of 30 May 90 23:46:09 GMT You should absolutely, difinitely, positively get more memory. How much depends on what you're doing. You will notice a rather considerable difference going from 8MB to 12MB almost no matter what you do. If you tend to do only relatively modest things (i.e. you don't act as a print server for anybody else, you don't run the Sybase server for anybody else, you don't keep too many things like TopDraw and Frame shuffling back and forth), 12MB will be all you need. If you do any of the above, however, go for 16MB. I've never experienced a cofiguration with >16MB, but in our use the server machines with 16MB feel about the same as the 12MB clients. (We haven't done any measurements, so we don't really know which is better.) Just go to any mail-order source for fast SIMMs. They seem to all work fine. Good luck, Denis Lynch ESL, Inc.