Optimal amount of RAM is whatever you can afford. ;) There is not finite limit (other than the limit set by the machine architecture). So with a 32 bit adressing machine, 4 Gigs is the most Optimal amount of RAM. But you can have up to 64 Gigs of Virtual memory as well (386+), that would make one hell of a swapartition. But for a Linuxmachine dedicated for mud, 32 Mb and a swapdrive with ~50 Mb is ok (Pentium machine of course) However the biggest (or smallest if youd rather) bottleneck is the netconnection. With RAM worth fort knox and a netconnection worth shit, it sucks. Rule no 1: get a good connection first. Then you can start worrying about RAM. My 2 cents. +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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