In article <MPG.21797b226da1f0d7989700@netnews.insightbb.com> ,
Lord_Possum@yahoo.com says...
> In article <MPG.21789728da8e9ed7989927@newsgroups.comcast.net >,
> al@aohell.com says...
>
> >Is that particularly small for a Firewall? I'm not sure your
> >description of Sygate being "really bloated", is entirely accurate.
> >I'm not pushing or endorsing Sygate, but my installation is 12 megs.
> >That's not that bloated IMO. If it, or any software package, does
> >what it advertises, 4 megs doesn't make THAT much of a difference.
> >I've tried most "endorsed" firewalls, but I always seem to "go
> >back" to Sygate. Al
> ============================
>
> One of the criteria I employ in judging a program's worth is not only
> the installed size, but the amount of Registry entries, and the
> number of functions requiring 'think' power ... a drain on RAM
> resources. Sygate is heavy than many in that respect.
>
> And, as far as installed size ... 12MB compared to 8MB tells me
> immediately that Sygate is 50% bigger, while doing no more or any
> better than what I use. That apparently will not mean much to those
> who don't care how much room a program takes up, but the extra 4MB
> means more of something else for me. And, in the end result, NetVeda
> is faster.
>
> Lord Possum
>

I've had this conversation with others in the past and found that, with
the "right" equipment, 4megs of hard drive space and 2 or 3 megs of RAM
is not very much. I'm running a 2.8GHz Pentium D with 2 Gigs of RAM. I
know not everyone has these resources, but I believe most people
frequenting this newsgroup looking for software, are probably people
that are pretty computer savvy and do have newer hardware which will run
most any of the software being discussed about here. It seems apropos
that someone here could come up with a list of software with attributes
pertaining to RAM and hard drive space usage. I'm sure there's a website
that does this, but I'm not familiar with one.

Al