[X-Newbies] G5 memory question

[avijit at physics.drexel.edu]

	The best way to see if you need more memory is type "top -o rsize"
from the terminal.  The Physical memory line will tell you how much
you have and the VM line says how much is virtual memory.. down below
all the apps you have running will be sorted w/ how much memory you are
using (RSIZE) and how much is being swapped away (VSIZE). A lot of this
is useless stuff swapped away but take a look at the photoshop line
while you are using it.. on my g4 laptop starting photoshop has 
a 300 megs w/ 50 megs sitting in memory.. it makes sense that apps
you just have sitting around and not using but resident swap themselves to 
disk but if you have apps that you are using that have a large ratio of 
virtual memory to real memory buy some ram for your system.. 1.5 gigs
seems like plenty but ram is cheap and you could probably get 4 gigs for
reasonable amounts..

	-best,
	-avi

> Good morning folks.
> 
> I know having as much memory as possible is always best, BUT… I currently have
> 1.5 GB's and I'm wondering if more would help running some of the following
> applications, or if the system will allocate as needed.
> 
> G5 - 2.5GH'z
> 10.3.6
> 
> Most drawing app's
> PhotoShop CS
> Final Cut Pro HD
> GoLive
> Netscape
> 160 GB main drive
> 250 GB 2nd drive
> External case with;
> 
> 160 GB drive
> 120 GB drive
> 80 GB drive
> and a second external 160 GB drive in it's own case.
> 
> Many of these, I'll have launch at the same time so… can I expect a big
> difference if I got more memory?
> 
> Oh, I'm asking because it does seems slow at times, but then again, it seems
> much slower then I thought it was going to be???
> 
> Skip
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