On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:42:26AM +1200, Angus McMorland wrote:
On 15/09/2007, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
First off, use a swap partition.
I can't touch the HDs of these machines - they're used for teaching by
day. That's one of the benefits of the live CD approach in
On 18/09/2007, Juergen Fiedler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:42:26AM +1200, Angus McMorland wrote:
On 15/09/2007, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
First off, use a swap partition.
I can't touch the HDs of these machines - they're used for teaching by
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:18:09 +1200
Angus McMorland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem:906588 287164 619424 0 41908 173652
-/+ buffers/cache: 71604 834984
Swap:0 0
into disable every service you don't need
at boot time to get ram usage down.
Thanks, I'll investigate this course.
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AJC McMorland, PhD Student
Physiology, University of Auckland
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On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:33:49 +0300
Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the default Etch kernel it isn't.
$ grep CONFIG_HIGHMEM /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-4-486/.config
CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set
CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
Aha! Yet another reason etch is a bad default (which is
Ben Armstrong wrote:
Aha! Yet another reason etch is a bad default
that has nothing to do with etch, but with the fact, that the 486 kernel
flavour doesn't support highmen. this is also the case in lenny.
and yes, the 486 kernel should be the default flavour; not just because
its the default
Woops - sent this off-list by accident - it's rather late/early here
and I should be asleep. Sorry, Tzafrir for the double sending.
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From: Angus McMorland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 16 Sep 2007 01:30
Subject: Re: RAM usage
To: Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 03:32:12PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
Ben Armstrong wrote:
Aha! Yet another reason etch is a bad default
that has nothing to do with etch, but with the fact, that the 486 kernel
flavour doesn't support highmen. this is also the case in lenny.
and yes, the 486
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
It also has SMP disabled. So you support up to oine CPU and 1GB of
memory. But you do support a bunch of extra CPUs. Yay!
remember, we are talking about default settings.
and again, the 486 flavour is the debian default kernel for the given
reasons. i strongly think that
On 15/09/2007, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:18:09AM +1200, Angus McMorland wrote:
Hi all,
I've made a debian live CD to allow me to perform some modelling. The
machines I have available to play with have 2 GB of RAM, which is
normally a lot more than
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