[Gllug] increase performance by increasing RAM or increasing in Core

[James Hawtin]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:01:55AM +0000, Jose Luis Martinez wrote:
> It depends.  If you name the applications you expect to use the most,
> then the group may come with suggestions for your specific setup.
> 
> There are programs that use little RAM but lots of CPU power, there
> are others with a small CPU footprint but that reserve lots of RAM
> (sometimes unnecessarily!).
> 
> RAM is cheap nowadays, if you have a good amount of it you  will most
> likely minimize disk access, this is important because disk access is
> still the slowest part of the chain in how your data is processed.

Using tmpfs for /tmp is a good idea if you have alot of ram that you don;t
know what to do with.

James
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