[X4U] Tuning Tiger

[Zane H. Healy]

Kirk McElhearn wrote:
> On May 3, 2005, at 7:14 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> 
> > One specific thing I'm interested in is how to calculate how much  
> > physical
> > RAM my system really should have.
> 
> Short answer: as much as you can afford, and as can fit in your Mac.

That answer works for something like my Sun Ultra 60 where I was able to do
that for basically nothing[1].  8GB of RAM for a dual 2Ghz G5 still costs a
lot of money, and it makes sense to try to do some actual capacity planning.

		Zane

[1] Actually it doesn't even make sense there as you have to take into
account the electricity I'm wasting, but it is nice to never swap.