[lily-dev] Upgrade of the machine running RPI's lily

Garance A Drosehn (gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu)
Sun, 25 Aug 96 02:34:33 -0400

Well, with the size of the lily process being what it is (even now,
in the lull before the fall semester), and memory prices being what
they are, and the fall semester about to start at RPI, I felt it
would be worthwhile to upgrade eclipse.

I've upgraded it from 64meg of RAM to 96meg of RAM. The memory
went in at about 5:30am (20 hours ago). So far, eclipse has not
paged. At all. It hasn't touched any of it's swapfiles. I imagine
this will have to increase the length of time lily can go before
eclipse needs a reboot.

Total cost of the upgrade, $358 (minus the value of the two 16-meg
SIMMs I have left over). If I remember right, the same upgrade
would have cost me over $2000 if I done it last December (minus a
larger amount, because the left-over 16-meg SIMMs were obviously
worth a lot more at the time...). If I'm really lucky, I will be
able to use those SIMMs in mlor (my NS/Intel box).

My guess is that this is the last upgrade for eclipse. This should
hold us for awhile (say, at least until next summer), and my guess
is that it will make more sense to just buy a new machine when this
much RAM isn't enough.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer        (MIME & NeXTmail capable)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA