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Tom Potts wrote: > It all depends what your trying to use the pc for and the loading of the same. > If its only got a gig of ram then swap may be useful. Obviously RAM would be > faster but if you hardly ever use over 1G - and a linux server (?) probably > wont get near that unless you do some serious DB work on it - then swap is a > better option than 3G of ram doing nothing or not a lot. > I'm also not sure how swap works these days - in theory you can have a near > infinite amount of swap whereas as 32bit system can only ever use 4G of ram. > Tom te tom te tom > Technically, on Ubuntu at least and I assume other distros, it is possible to use over 4GB memory on a 32-bit system, or at least it is using a 32-bit OS with 64-bit capable CPU by using the server kernel although I believe each process is limited to 4GB. That's what I'm running on my laptop (Ubuntu Desktop 32-bit with the server kernel), it has 4GB Ram so I can squeeze out the extra 750MB out of it. Not sure if it makes a blind bit of difference most of the time but it does mean that I can fire up the odd couple of gig Virtual machines. I dare say though 1GB should be plenty for something that is just running as a squid cache. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html