On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > On Maw, 2003-07-29 at 19:53, Adam Thornton wrote: > > Reading email shouldn't take much CPU, although if you insist on doing > > it inside UltraWhizzy > > K/Gnome/Mozilla/MultiMediaMailReaderNowWithGratuitousAnimation!!! then > > it can find a way, I'm sure, to burn CPU. > > Even that is mostly RAM and I/O heavy (in terms of the weak PC disk > subsystems). When I tested this with some CPU speed setting stuff at > about 800Mhz evolution simply stopped getting any faster.
I was surprised that performance improved noticably when I added 256 Mbytes of RAM. > > That's actually very much the market pitch of one of the CPU vendors > now (VIA) > There are some nice boxes coming from their products, some including a motherboard with a soldered-on CPU which retails for much the same price as a lot of mobos. The mobo is 17cm square, it's perfectly possible to build a system with the profile of a slimmed-down lunchbox: http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=www.tefalheads.com/programs/linux_jumpstart/images/sparclx.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.tefalheads.com/programs/linux_jumpstart/&h=230&w=186&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsparcstation%2BLX%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DG I chose this image because it goes to show how tiny these Sun boxes are, and I quite like the story that goes with it;-) And, it's one of those I just installed RHL 6.2 on. That box at the bottom is 24 cm (9 1/2") square. VIA specifically mentions it supports Linux. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb Copyright John Summerfield. Reproduction prohibited.
