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

[Jose Luis Martinez]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Diana Scott <dianascott1 at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> My linux box has 2Gb Ram in a Centrino at 1.7Ghz running ubuntu 8.10 32bit.
> If i were upgrade to the highest latest spec such as 4Gb Ram in a Dual Core
> processor running ubuntu 64 bit, what are the significant speed increases
> that can be easily noticeable apart from the speed of loading up programs ?
>
> Would a Dual Core 1.7Ghz processor with a 2Gb Ram can be faster than a
> single Core processor with the same spec because the Dual Core has a double
> processing engine ?
>
> Please advise.
>
>
> Diana
>


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.
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