RAM effectiveness

[armen]

i am currently experiencing slow boot-up and hangs after login and before i turn some services/servers off, I was wondering...
i now have 128 RAM, but i was wondering if the difference is noticable from human perspective to upgrade to 256?

I am trying to c what i can afford given the expected returns.

another question, after physically installing more RAM, is there any procedure from software level that i need to perform or is it automatically detected/utilized?

[SlowJet]

Hi amen, :)

After a very good hard drive, more memorey (up to 512 MB) is the best thing to add to get better results( next would be a good monitor and video card and they don't have to be top of the line.)
I just put a 128 MB chip in my grand son's win 98 pc (up from 32 MB) because he had a new Lego Desiger program he recieved from the registor. I added that 32 MB to my daugter's pc for a total of 96 MB coz she was having copy and paste memory problem with big math programs she uses with spreadsheets.
The results were very noticable and instant.

But fiist, ask about your hard dive? Can your pc only do pio mode 4? If yes then your boot time will always be slow. If it can use any dma mode then it will boot faster if the drive uses dma - a new drive would use udma33 or 66 speed. An increase over an old 4 GB disk of 4 to 6 times. And the udma mode uses less CPU.
With 128 MB your system is paging, so a faster hard drive would page faster.

HD, Mem, Video -

SJ


I am using FC3 on a Pent III 800 and a new disk with 1 GB memory.
The configuatrion I am runing (no http, db, vnc) uses 500 MB and the rest is buffers and files.

[Woad_Warrior]

the ram increase will help even with a slow HD, but slowjet's point about a newer HD is also valid. as far as needing to do anything else after adding more ram. no, nothing else needs done. (unless your bios doesn't correctly see the additional ram, in which case you'll need to go into your bios and tell it what you have.) personally, i'd throw in at least 512mb ram though.

[armen]

oh my goodness,
I just added 512 to my 128 and the difference is immense. I would save probably a whole 1 min 30 second difference

[armen]

not to forget that os doesn't hang anymore, thus far atleast