In article <Apr.25.13.32.25.1993.4924@geneva.rutgers.edu> hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:

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> doing a compile in one window has a bit less impact on response in
> other windows on the Sun.  This would make me suspicious of what would
> happen if you put a lot of people on a Linux system.  The SLS

Put a lot of memory in, you'll get better response times. :-) Demand
paging greatly masks the amount of memory actually needed for a
process under Linux, and gcc is known to consume really much memory.
And given the prices for SIMMs today, if you put more than one user on
your box (most users don't use the whole CPU power anyway) installing
16 or 32 MB is not that expensive, compared to a second workstation.
(On a DECstation, 32MB is the minimum for *one* user to get work done
in reasonable time.)  Also, what takes really much memory is X11, of
course. You probably don't need 16MB for 2 users without X.

Olaf
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