On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Bob Tracy <r...@gherkin.frus.com> wrote: > Let's go with that last one. I was pretty sure I had more physical RAM > in my PWS 433au than I evidently do: /proc/meminfo implies I've got > somewhere in the vicinity of 576 MB, at least 512 MB of which is what I > purchased for the beast back in 2005 for US$96 (4x128MB). Swap is > approx. 1.5 GB, so you may safely assume the poor machine was thrashing > quite a bit. Just to get qt4-x11 to build required configuring an > additional GB of swap as a file within one of the filesystems that had > enough free space. Not exactly a good recipe for efficient performance. > The 433au supports up to 1.5 GB of PC66 RAM in six slots, so I'll try to > find 6x256 MB sticks if I can find them somewhere at a good price. Back > in 2005, my vendor of choice was http://www.kahlon.com, and they only > had the 512 MB kit (4x128MB).
Hardly worth it. There's no upgrade for a PWS that's going to make it fast. I'd set up a distributed C/++ compiler if I wanted to reduce build times. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caedq38gk55tasde_dippngt8qb++wievvodt+fcmoxsmtsp...@mail.gmail.com