On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 13:36, flacycads wrote: > James, > Thanks for the info on Linux memory usage- that's really good stuff to know. > And I do agree, Mandrake is very good right out of the box- it's definitely > the best distro I've used so far, and I find it ridiculous when people talk > about Mandrake's "bloated OS." Their kernel is certainly not bloated, as most > of the options are modules, and just because you have a lot of packages > installed on your hard drive doesn't mean they are all loaded at any given > time- to me, it just seems irrelevant to any concept of a "bloated OS. I just > don't get what these people mean by Mandrake is "bloated." > > I guess without thinking I got into a habit of calling the swap partition > "swapfile," as I always put the windows swapfile on it's own partition. > > I have been experimenting with preemptive/low-latency kernels a little bit, > and am gradually gaining a little knowledge on this aspect- can't wait for > the 2.6 kernel to be released.
Same here for a number of reasons. If I have the numbers right they loaded and unloaded 10,000 threads in the kernel in under half a second. Whereas with the current kernel it took about 10 seconds.... BIG difference. > > Robert C. > > On Thursday 27 February 2003 03:20 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 06:59, flacycads wrote: > > > Since this little tibit of info in useful if you are dual booting with > > > winME/98/95 and Linux with more than 512MB ram, I'll submit it. There is > > > no problem with higher versions of windows. > > > > > > The thing to do is set the MaxFileCache setting in System.ini to 512MB or > > > > > Robert Crawford > > > > In relation to your actual question... With RAM no tweaks are really > > needed until you get above 4gigs. ... I'd say it's safe to say most of > > us don't have near that much in the majority of our boxes. Above 1gig > > the enterprise kernel will improve performance more because it uses the > > ram more effectively. As for swap. Linux doesn't use a swapfile (it > > could but doesn't) it uses a swap partition. Dedicated to being only > > swap and never changing in size. (or on my box never being used > > either.... *grin*) The tweaks that seem to be the best on Linux come > > less with modifying the way it starts and more with modifying the way > > the hardware works, or in doing heavy changes to the kernel itself (Like > > low latency kernels, hyper-threading etc.) However for about 90% of the > > people/usage it's pretty darn optimized out of the box. MDK and the > > others are pretty good about making things work well together. > > > > James > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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