Christian Nygaard wrote: > Thanks for this input regarding Gnome memory usage it is insightful and > the percentage rule of thumb. The system will > be 1U Dual Woodcrest 5140 terminal server and have somewhere around 8GB > of memory The sweet spot for memory size is around 10GB for a hugemem 32-bit kernel. At 16GB or more, I would definitively go for a 64-bit kernel if possible. > reserve io ops for sporadic reboots of the latter. Its currently > handling somewhat ok with 6GB of memory on two > 32bit Dual Xeon machines for the same user load. So both machines have 6GB, or 2x3GB? -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: morten at mortent.org //IM: Cartoon at jabber.no morten.torstensen at gmail.com And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The worst that can be said is that he's an underachiever.