Pascal Schmidt wrote in a message to Paul Rogers:

 PS> Hi Paul! :-)

 PR> Considering all the work that got done
 PR> on IBM S/360 OS/MVT mainframes, all of which were 4MB or less--the
 PR> architecture placed a 16MB limit on addressability--one wonders why
 PR> one needs a 1GB DIMM.

 PS> Well, nowadays the most important use for lots of memory (at least
 PS> under Unix-like operating systems) is disk cache. Memory is already
 PS> slow from the CPU's point of view, going to disk awfully so.

I would tend to agree with this,  since the system I'm using at this point
is apparently spending a fair amount of time swapping stuff back and forth
from the HD.  It gets to be a real drag,  at times.

 PS> Of my 640M, about 500M are disk cache most of the time.

I would guess that this would change based on what mix of applications
you're running,  do you find this to be the case?

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