From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HkGvG-0005GY-Va for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 09:51:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l459nS8M024061; Sat, 5 May 2007 09:49:28 GMT Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.149.33.74]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l459nR8S024056 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 09:49:28 GMT Received: from wstn.prhnet (prh.gotadsl.co.uk [81.6.251.123]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9571B4F264 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 10:49:26 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: [OT] AGPART [SOLVED] Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 10:49:23 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <20070504170035.8E51699466@mail.ilievnet.com> <20070505075815.DE6FA92266@mail.ilievnet.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705051049.23193.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 2588959a-9d5d-4d01-bab5-d1d865614bba X-Archives-Hash: d74801f3d91e507275002c9f751004a3 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. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list