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From: Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:39:12
Message-Id: 20070709223237.4763f609@pascal.spore.ath.cx
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo by Ophidian
1 On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:59:36 -0400
2 Ophidian <ophidian@×××××××××××××××.net> wrote:
3
4 > And yes, the 2GB RAM is probably
5 > overkill since I've never actually taken it all that close to filling
6 > up RAM let alone swapping to disk.
7
8 Agreed, of course, but one nice thing about extra ram that it might be
9 pertinent to mention is that it can be used to cache and significantly
10 reduce hard drive I/O once the cache is primed.
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