Bryan Carbonnell
carbonnb at gmail.com
Mon Jan 3 08:27:58 CST 2005
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 09:12:00 -0500, John W. Colby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote: > 512 mb should indeed be enough. Unfortunately it just isn't anymore. I > haven't figured out exactly why but WinXP just sucks up memory. As an > example right now I have open WinXP, Outlook and Firefox with a single tab. > Of course I have Norton AV and Sygate firewall as well (this is my laptop). > Oh, and Folding at Home is loaded and processing a large work unit (100mb), > Yahoo and Messenger (which I don't use much but can't seem to get rid of). I don't know about that John. Maybe it's the 64bit chip. I've got an Athlon 1.4 GHz with 256MB RAM and it's fine with XPP SP2. I usually have Firefox with 10 tabs or so, Pegasus Mail, iTunes or WinAmp playing MP3s, MSN Messenger, Zone Alarm, eTrust AV, a keylogger, Apache, MySQL all running at the same time. The only time that I have found that I want/need more memory is when I was trying to create/edit a video made from stills.But even then, performace was acceptable. Maybe it's because this is a desktop PC and not a laptop, but for me 256 is enough. -- Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "What a great ride!"