Re: RAM usage

2007-09-17 Thread Juergen Fiedler
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

Re: RAM usage

2007-09-17 Thread Angus McMorland
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

Re: RAM usage

2007-09-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
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

Re: RAM usage

2007-09-15 Thread Angus McMorland
into disable every service you don't need at boot time to get ram usage down. Thanks, I'll investigate this course. -- AJC McMorland, PhD Student Physiology, University of Auckland ___ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel

Re: RAM usage

2007-09-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
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

Re: RAM usage

2007-09-15 Thread Daniel Baumann
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

Fwd: RAM usage

2007-09-15 Thread Angus McMorland
Woops - sent this off-list by accident - it's rather late/early here and I should be asleep. Sorry, Tzafrir for the double sending. -- Forwarded message -- From: Angus McMorland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16 Sep 2007 01:30 Subject: Re: RAM usage To: Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RAM usage

2007-09-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
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

Re: RAM usage

2007-09-15 Thread Daniel Baumann
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

Re: RAM usage

2007-09-14 Thread Angus McMorland
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