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Date:      Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:59:06 -0400
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, 'eculp' <eculp@encontacto.net>
Subject:   RE: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H	and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.
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Gary Gatten writes:

>  Yes, generally speaking "more" of something is always better, in
>  fact our government seems to think more debt is better than less.
>  However, if you're web apps only need xGB of RAM and y MIPS; what
>  benefit is it to have n * x RAM and n * y MIPS?

	It is my understanding surplus RAM will be allocated to
file-caching.  Whether this benefits your particular application set
I would have no idea.

	Respectfully,


					Robert Huff





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