Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: [OT] AGPART [SOLVED]

[Peter Humphrey <prh@gotadsl.co.uk>]

On Saturday 05 May 2007 10:15:41 Duncan wrote:

> Actually, here, I have 8 gigs.  That's a bit overkill.  I'd probably
> stick with four if I were doing it over, as over four gigs remains
> entirely empty, most of the time, not even used for cache.

Glad to see I got it right, 3.5 years ago   :-)

Here also, my 4 GB is at least half-empty unless I'm compiling a large 
package like OO.o. My two single-core Opteron 246 CPUs have plenty of 
playing space.

> Still, I have dual Opterons now, and was buying with dual-cores in mind.

My experience suggests that you would still have been pretty comfortable 
with 4 GB.

> 8 gig of memory should still be plenty with dual dual-cores, even out
> three more years, ...

Well, of course much can happen in that time, so you may be proved right 
after all.

> which is when I expect to start getting serious about upgrading my entire
> platform once again.

Don't talk about it, all right? Just don't talk about it.

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Rgds
Peter Humphrey
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