Considering the size of some programs and X managers these days, increasing your ram can't hurt. I recently went from 64 M to 128 M and I've noticed that I don't hit the swap partition nearly so often anymore. in a way, this is the most defined performance increase I've seen. X also loads faster and doesn't generate some of the errors I've come to expect from it. Hawke "Michael J. Schweppe" wrote: > > This may seem to be silly question but would I notice a significant > increase in performance if I increased my RAM? In the past I recall > hearing various opinions as to if a 'real' advantage does exist. > > My current setup is a PIII 450 w/ 64M RAM. > > I'm not doing anything special presently, no graphics to edit, or hi-end > games, just learning/playing with Linux. > > If adding additional memory is a real advantage would adding another 128 > on top of the present 64 realize a significant benefit especially since > Linux manages memory usage so well? > > Mike > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- visit my webpage: http://pretorian.ath.cx/~proudhawk I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own - No. 6