I, too, have only 64MB of RAM, and have never seen any memory shortage. I find it hard to believe that an OS upgrade would suddenly require so much more memory. grrrr.
David,
That's a valid comment, to be sure.
I spent 8 years at Sun and 3 years at Cisco and requiring more memory to run new versions of SunOS (later Solaris) and Cisco's IOS, was an ongoing issue, and no doubt still is.
Every manufacturer aims to keep the required memory as low as possible but has to balance this with the demands for new features customers want.
At least Net App's OS requires a lot less memory and disk space than NT (which is now 27MB in size, I'm told), UNIX, or Cisco's IOS.... I saw a recent oil company example which showed a Filer leaving 200GB of usable disk space from 25 x 9GB drives. The UNIX equivalent was 160GB of usable disk space from the same 25 x 9GB. Net App does give you low overheads, as a result of its purpose-built architecture.
A Filer is generically much more like a router than a general purpose Unix or NT box, but we still require much less space than Cisco's IOS, for example.
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