Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!hardy From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: RAM and performance Message-ID: Date: 20 Apr 91 04:50:04 GMT References: <1991Apr19.170917.19511@hardy.u.washington.edu> Organization: U.C.Irvine, Dept. of Physics Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: golem.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: jjb@hardy.u.washington.edu's message of 19 Apr 91 17:17:25 GMT In article <1991Apr19.170917.19511@hardy.u.washington.edu> jjb@hardy.u.washington.edu (Jim Black) writes: > I have a mono 040 cube with 8MB: I'm thinking about getting more RAM to speed > the system up (it seems to swap a fair bit). > > Can folks report their performance experiences with RAM upgrades in the > NeXT - ie, is the performance difference between 8MB and 16MB RAM very > noticeable/profound? 16MB->32MB? > > What's the recommendation on how much RAM you "should" have in a basic > single-user cube for high-performance? (Most of what I'm doing is pretty > vanilla, though I like to keep a lot of stuff active.) By going to 20MB (16 MB in 4 MB simms and 4 MB old 1 MB simms) at a cost of about $750 you will see a noticeable increase inperformance, particularly if you run many applications, like TeX, Texview, or Xnext. I would almost say it is a must (if you are used to Unix workstations, rather than Macintoshes). Greetings, Hardy -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy); Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717; (714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET