Thursday, May 12, 2011

How Many Memory (RAM) Capacities that Ideal for our PC?

How Many Memory (RAM) Capacities that Ideal for our PC?
This is the hard question to answer. Too much variable which will affect the calculation of How Many Memory (RAM) capacities that ideal for our PC. And what is will affect it?  Probably some of the PC user has been through this situation; work on the PC system with less memory. Animated sand glass, sound like the harddisk (hard drive) is working hard, is one of the sign that the PC is less memory (RAM). and Inside The Computer now will share the knowledge of it, enjoy it.
what is the ideal memory?
Calculate the Needed of the PC Memory (RAM)
To know when we need to increase the PC Memory, this is little guidance that we can use to know the ideal memory we need. The application such as Word processing, spreadsheet, or Pdf reader will use the memory each about 20 MB. A browser application with the tab browser facility also will use the memory about 50 MB. And operating system, such as Windows XP Professional Edition will need memory about 100 MB. So, even the minimum system requirement from Windows XP only 128 MB, that only for the requirement of operating system. With the list of application that we already write above, may be will be wise if the system has at least 256 MB. But if the PC with the game application run, that’s will be more variety. But we suggest to all the Gamers including 3D Games, we recommend at least the memory installed is no less than 1 GB or more.

How about the Server Computer? That’s the good question.
Not much the PC users who care about how many RAM installed on the Server. But, this also will affect the performance of server to serving the client computers which joining on the network. So, we have to be sure the server is installed with enough memory capacity. Operating systems which using on the server also can be affect same like PC. Beside, the calculation of variable the needed of server memory will be different with PC.

Calculate the Needed of the Server Memory (RAM)
The main function of server is needed to be considering. Is the server as application, communication, remote access, e-mail, web, file, multimedia, database, or just print server? The requirement memory of server file, multimedia will be less than server database. For print server, we have to see the type of paper and estimate how many sheets that printer will print.

The Number of clients, who connected, is one of the important factors. We have to estimate the maximum connected clients. The number of CPU usage will be affect too. More CPU, that’s mean more instruction and data has to process. To optimize multiprocessor we need more RAM compared with the server only with single CPU.

The signs that the server is has insufficient memory, is different with PC. If there is any delayed process such as data saving, printing, etc. that could be because the server need more memory, in other word, the server has insufficient memory (RAM).

On the PC, the user is easily to monitor the usage of the memory. In the windows operating system we can open Task Manager. The same method also we can use to see the usage of memory on server. There is so many utility to watch the CPU, memory and hard drive usage. Watch the maximum point (peak) of memory usable. Disk utilization also can drastically increase, is one of the indication that the server is has to use the paging file on the hard drive (harddisk).

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