Quoting Basil Bourque <basilbourque at mac.com>: > > My machine is a server... > > > > Do you folks see the actual speed boost on any bench tests? Is it a > > seat of pants thing? > > It depends on what kind of a server <snippage> > --Basil Bourque > It is running 10.2.3,Apache, PHP4.x and one of the latest variants of MySQL. In the terminal, "uptime" is: 2:08PM up 6 days, 19:34, 2 users, load averages: 0.03, 0.09, 0.07 In the terminal again, "top" reveals: Processes: 55 total, 2 running, 53 sleeping... 129 threads 14:09:37 Load Avg: 0.70, 0.24, 0.08 CPU usage: 18.8% user, 81.2% sys, 0.0% idle SharedLibs: num = 46, resident = 9.66M code, 824K data, 3.33M LinkEdit MemRegions: num = 3108, resident = 40.4M + 4.88M private, 33.9M shared PhysMem: 40.8M wired, 120M active, 72.5M inactive, 233M used, 54.9M free VM: 1.10G + 25.5M 11998(0) pageins, 2778(0) pageouts I think I need to dump the 256mb chip and go for a 512mb chip as long as it helps! Thanks everyone for the replies on and off list. This will be some good info to let the folks at OWC know if I get it working. Erik Gilchrist mailto:erikgil at metagrafix.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ d e s i g n . d e v e l o p . d e l i v e r :::::::: http://www.metagrafix.com ::::::::