> out right away. I run on 128 megs of ram with a win98 vm
> set with 64 megs and almost never hit swap. I don't do much
Windows is a poor memory manager. Even with 128MB of RAM Windows is still using
VM and swapping stuff out before it has used up all of the Physical RAM.
> graphics work but most of the high end graphics work I have
> seen have had a minimum of 256 megs ram. It seems like a lot
>From info off the Lightwave mailing list (Windows 3d application), it is
recommended that for graphics work you should have 128MB of RAM per processor
minimum.
> to me but I guess when images are 10-30 megs compressed they
> really take up a lot of ram when being worked on.
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