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Re: Linux/Solaris/Windows on Notebook
>> 2. I'm going to run X and Motif heavilly (I know that Motif is not
>> included;
>> I'll build my version), together with Netscape and heavy
>> compilations;
>> Are 16MB sufficient or should I have 20MB?
>
>16MB is sufficient but you should have 20MB ;-) 20MB will probably make
>performance much better, especially under X.
>
Am I missing out on something? Is there something critical in the change
from 16M to 20M DAVKA ?
As far as I know (both theoretically and from upgrading practice) the
amount of application allocated memory that can exist without page faults
grows linearly (in 1st order approx.) with the size of RAM.
I do not know about Notebooks, but in a desktop it seems not to be economical
to buy just 4M, it is a waste of slot space.
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