Keith Kottwitz wrote to Will Honea on 04-25-1998
KK> WH> recall, some playing one dark and stormy nite indicated that, at 
east
KK> WH> for my setup, the curved flattened pretty quickly at about 40 - 48 
eg
KK> WH> and didn't really do much after that.  'Course I just installed
KK> 
KK>     Hmmm, this is interesting. What does one play with to determine 
this... 
KK> It seems to be about the same for me but my opinion is just a
KK> touch and feel  type one, if you know what I mean.  
The only meaningful test to me is 'how much can I do how fast'.  With
that in mind, I have a sequence which tries to choke about anything:  4
concurrent compile/link sessions with about any compiler.  That will
just about saturate the disk system and use enough memory to pretty
well force swapping if it's run over my normal 'idle' load.  With the
486DX/2-66, performance gains topped out with 48 meg or so, with the
(new) K6-200, the benefit seemed to top out at something in the
neighborhood of 40 meg.  Of course there is some benefit of additional
memory, especially for real memory hogs like the Visual Builder
(shudder), but there does seem to be a point of diminishing returns.
KK>     I have just gotten a new install to realize that I do have an
KK> network card in there (just tells me now that I have a bad cable) so
KK> when all the  networking is up and online, I figure it will help
KK> there.
Oh, yes, memory will always help the network.  BTW, I see that message
when the NIC's drivers load OK but it doesn't see the net - cable
disconnected, unterminated, etc., OR when the setup has gotten fouled
up and it tries to use the wrong connector on a multi-interface board.
Will Honea 
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