Thread:LOTRMod/@comment-73.39.101.60-20140710172321/@comment-27723099-20150218150555

Ffets wrote: The makers of the optifine mod recommend even less (500-700 MB) they say that way your computer is able to swap memory easier to the hard drive.

My MC installation with lotr mod, fastcraft, optifine, bibliocraft and mapwriter uses about 1 GB of space and runs quite smoothly (as long as the server runs smoothly). I can't understand this point. Swapping (usage of hard drive space because the RAM is too small) is never good. It slows down everything. I heard of computers that need about half an hour to start because they only have a few MB RAM and have to swap all the time to load the OS itself.