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On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 05:26:36PM +0000, Kalyan Vaidyanathan wrote:

>  I have a Dell Dimension 8100 desktop with 1.3 GHz.  I have redhat 8.0 and 
> Windows ME.  I am thinking of upgrading my memory.  I currently have 128MB 
> RAM. Since it is ME, Microsoft says that max recommended is 512 MB.
>  I would like to use my linux box to install and run Tomcat and a java ide. 
>  Do you think 512 (+128 existing) should be sufficient for reasonable 
> productivity?

I just thought I'd point out, since you mention linux and memory, that
you should check the setting of 'high memory support' under 'processor
type and features' (that's using 'make xconfig' for kernel compile).
It's typically turned off, which in your case is what you want.  But you
should be aware that it's there if you ever start running over 1G of
memory.  The way things move, that won't be too long now...

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