Re: [LUG] Just Curious? - and an apology RE rants about debian

[kevin bailey <kevin_bailey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

notice for any debian stable users - though i'm sure everyone else 
already figured this out...

my setup -

machine 1 (stella) - debian stable:
P200 based box as firewall, gateway, proxy server, appletalk file/print 
server, NFS server.  girlfriend controls internet conection using vnc 
and diald x control.

machine 2 (skol) debian stable with compiled from source progs as necessary:
workstation based on 800 duron and 128 MB ram - which was not being 
used. ........

i was checking out the issue of adding ram to my workstation cos it 
seemed to be slow - and - it transpires (thanks be for the oracle 
deja.com) that the install prog for debian stable does not set the 
amount of RAM in lilo.conf - and if you have more than 64 MB ram you 
have to tell lilo otherwise it uses a default setting - i would guess 
about 16 MB.

the result was that my machine was only using a small amount of the 
128MB ram available and was very slow - but i thought - well java progs 
are slow - and i'm using the latest versions of mozilla... (and too dumb 
to think of other reasons...)

now i have told the kernel about the correct amount of ram - by typing

Linux mem=128mb

at the boot prompt and the machine flies along - before, the hard drive 
was repeatedly being thrashed - now it is silent most of the time,

i've heard that there are ways of checking how much virtual memory being 
used - anyone know how?

and how do you measure bogomips - and what are they?

kev



lee quick wrote:

> We see countless examples of linux running on various old machines but 
> out of interest what sort of spec
> computer do group members have there favourite flavour of linux 
> running on?
>
> Does anyone besides myself use it as a standalone workstation on newer 
> hardware?
>
> Me vital stats are .....
>
> Suse 7.3/RH7.2 (depending on mood)
>
> Gigabyte Ga7zxr Mainboard with Duron1200(pr 1600+)
> 512megs pc133
> Geforce 3 ti200(abit siluro)nvidia glx drivers.
> Twin Maxtor UDMA100 ide drive 80gig ,plenty of room for home directory ;)
> Herc 4.1 sound (cm 8738)alsa
> M/S natural pro keyboard, all things being equal M$ make a fine keyboard
> M/S usb optical
> 17in Samsung dynaflat monitor
> Cyberdrive 12x DVD
> Liteon 24x10x40 burnproof
>
>
> 2398.61 bogomips.
>
> And too much time on my hands.....
>
>
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