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From: DevilKin <DevilKin@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: More memory == better?
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 19:46:54 +0200
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On Tuesday 23 October 2001 18:15, antirez wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 06:10:38PM +0200, DevilKin wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > I must say that even with most of my applications loaded/running, the
> > system never even touches the swap partition.
> >
> > So, would it be wise?
>
> If the applications you run are very disk-intensive probably the
> answer is yes, since free memory is used as disk cache.

Not really no... Just the average desktop stuff...  some programming now and 
again... 

And games ofcourse :-)

DK

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