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Unread 01-31-2009, 11:02 PM   #5
Terry Kennedy
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Default Re: Snap Server 4100 and SATA adapters...

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Originally Posted by blue68f100 View Post
In most case the extra ram is used for JVM if loaded and active. Otherwise their is very little improvement over 64meg.
One other reason - if the Snap decides it needs to do a disk check on startup and there isn't enough free RAM, it will switch to a swap-based fsck which will take a *lot* longer. As bigger drives get installed, more memory is needed.
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