I'm planning to upgrade my RAM in the next week or so. I currently have 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1333Mhz RAM installed. I'm planning to upgrade to 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 1600Mhz RAM. This would be the second time I updated the RAM (from stock 2 x 2GB DDR3 1333).
The Latency is also higher with the 16GB of RAM. Since latency is time, the higher it is the slower - albeit largely immeasurable.
I'm trying to bring down the page out & in's and leave enough room for other services to function comfortably. I'd love to upgrade from my Quad-Core but it's not likely going to happen in the next few years, so I'm resorting to RAM upgrades. I understand the Swap is the size of the RAM, so I can't lower that. It's hard to ask for a real world idea of any improvements but would this upgrade at least suppress page-outs?
The most intensive process has got to be, at times, my minecraft game server. Which, as of now is using 396 of 1011MB's allotted to it. Every now and again I'll start up a 3D Landscape generator, and various image & video manipulation programs.
I don't run any real server processes despite the Server status of the OS in the image. I went with the Mini Server for the dual drives & Quad CPU. Which, I haven't regretted (other than Apple is stubborn when it comes to choices, because I would have preferred to not of had OS X Server). I do plan on an SSD but that'll come later rather than sooner.
The Latency is also higher with the 16GB of RAM. Since latency is time, the higher it is the slower - albeit largely immeasurable.
I'm trying to bring down the page out & in's and leave enough room for other services to function comfortably. I'd love to upgrade from my Quad-Core but it's not likely going to happen in the next few years, so I'm resorting to RAM upgrades. I understand the Swap is the size of the RAM, so I can't lower that. It's hard to ask for a real world idea of any improvements but would this upgrade at least suppress page-outs?
The most intensive process has got to be, at times, my minecraft game server. Which, as of now is using 396 of 1011MB's allotted to it. Every now and again I'll start up a 3D Landscape generator, and various image & video manipulation programs.
I don't run any real server processes despite the Server status of the OS in the image. I went with the Mini Server for the dual drives & Quad CPU. Which, I haven't regretted (other than Apple is stubborn when it comes to choices, because I would have preferred to not of had OS X Server). I do plan on an SSD but that'll come later rather than sooner.