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On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:31:19 -0600, Michael D. Ober <obermd-@-alum-mit-edu-nospam> wrote:

WinNT, 2K, XP, and 2003 all keep active processes in memory if possible.
SETI shouldn't be swapping if you have sufficient memory.  Based on my
experiences, I recommend the following minimum memory levels:

NT:  128Kb
2K:  256Kb
XP:  512Kb
2003:  512Kb

FWIW, I think you meant MB and not Kb....

And your numbers are way super high.

NT4 (I assume you mean 4, and not 5, 5.1, or 3.51) runs great on 64MB 
of RAM.  You definitely won't have active processes dipping in to swap 
all the time.  Remember NT4 is a Windows 95-vintage OS.  Windows 95 ran 
on systems with 12MB of memory, IIRC... I know it ran in 16MB.  We 
happily (well, not happily, the damned thing crashed) ran Windows 98 on 
a P5-133 with 24MB of RAM.

Win2K runs pretty good on 128MB of RAM.  Heck, it runs well on 64MB, but 
I'd suggest you go with a minimum of 128MB.  Unless you're running a 
bunch of stuff at once, you won't find your system swapping active 
processes.

For XP and Server 2003, I'd suggest 256MB of RAM.  For an ideal 
experience, go with 512MB ... or even a full gig... but you won't find 
it swapping out active processes with 256MB.  At home here, I have XP 
running on four computers at the moment... three with 256MB of RAM, and 
one with 320MB in it.  None of them hit swap very much at all, except to 
swap out some idle processes, which we can't stop Windoze from doing.

FWIW, I'm actually running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (the 
180-day demo) on a PII 266 wtih 160MB of RAM and haven't had any 
significant performance issues on it, either.  I'm using it as a 
terminal server so I can run a few Windoze-specific apps through Linux.  
I thought I'd see just how easily done this is before my demo expires.

Your levels of RAM mentioned (assuming MB instead of Kb) are good levels 
to have in a nice system, but by no means could be considered minimum 
levels.

-- 
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