Dear Femme; You said it yourself. Enterprise kernel is for systems above a Gig. You have exactly a Gig. The thing is, I saw the list of hardware you have on a previous port ( nice hardware by the way ), and I don't think that the E-kernel will do the trick for you. It's designed for your usual server-based "services" which don't do a lot of exciting things, just a lot of "server" things in a very stable manner. I'm running the E-kernel on a dual Athlon server with 2 Gigs of ram and it's very nice, but not designed for multi-media stuff. Your system is screaming for a standard kernel or the SMP kernel.
As far as seeing only 800 Megs of your ram is concerned, that's because of two things - 1) Linux only needs 800 on your system, and 2) you don't have OVER a Gig. Normally, Linux takes all the available ram and manages it so that different applications can have what they need. Once you get up topwards a Gig however, you start heading into "server-country", and that's where the E-kernel kicks in. I think Linus designed it that way because he never conceived of a desktop user needing more than 6 or 7 hundred Megs of ram, and figured that anyone using more than that would probably be using it for a server. Your hardware is obviously for a multi-media desktop PC, but since the installer sees a Gig of ram, it assumes that you have a server and installs the E-kernel, thinking it's doing you a favour. You can leave it there and try it out, but I think the only ploace you'll notice a difference is in stability. That's the good news. The bad news is that your motherboard will probably run your FSB bus at a slower rate with that much ram in it. I've got the Asus A7V8X in mine (what can I say? I'm a nut for AMD!), and I noticed an improvement in my system when I pulled 512 Megs of ram OUT, and dropped it down to 512Mb's! If you've got two sticks of ram on-board, try pulling out half, and restarting with the normal kernel. I think you'll be surprised. Asus boards have a nasty habit of dropping the speed of your Front-Side Bus down a notch or two when you run that much ram, so by pulling out half, the FSB should go back up to the fastest speed that your CPU can handle. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that your system runs 10% faster afterwards. I haven't found out if this "quirk" is due to the chipset or just the nature of the beast, yet, but if I do, I'll let you know. Hope this helps (?). By the way, I meant what i said about you NOT being a dummy! I think that the term "dummies" is synonymous with "Microsoft Windows User", and is especially reserved for those that never take the time to read "End-User License Agreements" (EULA's), so that they can discover which of their privacy rights they are surrendering to MicroShaft. I don't think you'd qualify for that title, nor would anyone on this list, since they're already using or looking for a decent alternative! Anyway, try a variety of kernels if you like. It won't harm your system, and after a few weeks you can decide if there's a difference or not, but kep in mind the idea of dropping your ram to 512Mb's. Cheers! (Nice flaming red hair by the way! That was a wig, right?) Lanman *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 6/2/2003 at 9:48 PM FemmeFatale wrote: >At 10:28 PM 6/2/2003 -0400, you wrote: >>Femme; The Enterprise kernel is primarily designed for servers with dual >>CPU's. It provides the same characteristics as the SMP version ( >>Symmetrical Multi-Processing), and a few tweaks to the memory management. >>But unless you have a small hard drive, this shouldn't be an issue >anyways. >> >>If you're doing a fresh install, you can add the SMP and Enterprise >>kernels to your install and try them out. They will be added to LILO, so >>you can select any of them and try them for yourself. That way, you can >>decide whether or not they work for you or not. If you decide that either >>of these kernels work for you, then un-install the ones you don't need, >>and keep the ones you like. >> >>P.S.; I get the impression your not a dummy at all. >> >>Lanman > > >Heh ty sweetheart. You're being very kind. I ask the question b/c >honestly linux itself when I installed it made both kernels available. I >wasn't sure really what the diff was cept for the memory support above a >gig. So I wasn't sure which to choose. > >Kinda a silly question maybe but how will i know which is better??? Is >there an objective way to find out? > >Oh & I looked @ my memory usage using Ent. but I think it said i had >800mb... this led me to try to tell LILO that I had 1gb of memory. After >that I have no linux that works so I must reinstall. :D > >Ain't i brilliant? Still think i'm not a dummy? :) heh >------------- >FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt > >Good Decisions Your boss Made: >"We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that >character from Peanuts." > >- Source: Dilbert > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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