How much memory?

[Andrew Mason]

On Tuesday 15 February 2005 5:15 pm, Clinton MacDonald wrote:
> Mr. Montoya:
>
> Ruben Montoya wrote:
> > I have both a Power Mac 9500 & 7200. Can anyone tell me how much memory
> > I will need to install YDL 3.0?
>
> Terra Soft does not have much to say about RAM requirements for Yellow
> Dog Linux. I think most folks might say that 64-128 MB is the minimum
> for personal use of Linux; 256-512 MB of RAM would be great (more is
> always better up to practical limits). If you intend to host some large
> databases, even 512 MB might not be enough.
>
> Keep in mind, however, that increasing your RAM increases your need for
> hard drive space, since a portion of your drive equal to about twice
> your RAM is allocated to "swap" space. Go here for more information
> about hard drive space requirements:

This is not really so...up to about 512 is the limit unless your are swapping 
loads of stuff. For example my desktop constantly has up to 20 apps running 
with 512mb of ram and my swap usage is basically nill. Every now and then if 
i open up lots of large images in photoshop i may use about 50mb but that its 
extremely rare. Linux is very very good at managing memory.

>
> <http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/products/faq/drive_space.shtml>
>
> Good luck!
>
> Best wishes,
> Clint

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