What a difference a GB makes!

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 02:12:40PM -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>     I ran my top and found this old computer has 477108k ram. I decided 
> it might be 4GB but it didn't seem the computer worked like there was 
> that much RAM.

;)

I tend to use 'free -m' to see the amount of RAM in megabytes, since
counting digits gets boring pretty quickly.

>     There was a 1 GB DDR strip I took out of the computer I ruined and 
> discovered it would plug into my computer. I did so with great care and 
> now top says I have
> 1511964k RAM which now looks like 1.5 GB. The old puter is a lot 
> spunckier now. I will turn on some optical effects just for fun :-)

A gig of RAM is very noticeable.

Although, depending on what you do, even two gigs may turn out to be
insufficient.

Marius Gedminas
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