From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MyASr-0003Yg-1A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:28:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04FCCE095F; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:28:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zion.lichtfels.com (zion.lichtfels.com [88.198.33.170]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4C8FE095F for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:28:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zion.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3426F18401D for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:28:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from zion.lichtfels.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zion [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with LMTP id 31246-05 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:28:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [172.32.99.12] (mail.oops.co.at [213.129.238.225]) by zion.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 79F8D184003 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:28:40 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4AD63480.6030705@xunil.at> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:28:48 +0200 From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" Organization: oops! User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090929) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM References: <4AD3953C.5030706@xunil.at> <4AD5E869.10708@gmail.com> <4AD60286.4020603@xunil.at> <200910142221.38567.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <200910142221.38567.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-maia at lichtfels.com X-Archives-Salt: fbe4f12c-7a7c-4bdc-be29-c30940530f2a X-Archives-Hash: 4bce5af8e343b8a129a630b020d39033 Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: > I remember standing in front of two Sun servers with 4gb each a couple of > years ago. > I was stuck in awe. So much ram. Yes. I remember as well. "Why 128 MB RAM in that workstation? Are you sure we need that much? It costs!" > Today my desktop has 8gb - and I am thinking about 16 in the next 12 month. What for? Just to get back to the initial topic of the thread ;-) In fact I don't even feel very adventurous with those 64 GB per server ... the hardware/board would allow 128 GB and the OS/app even more ... It somehow shifts ... back then 64/96/128/256 MEGAbytes were BIG, now we just get used to swap the unit: GIGAbytes, yeah, *yawn* .... ;-) Stefan