Am Dienstag, 22. Juni 2010 schrieb Walter Dnes:
I just got a brand new custom-built 8 gig machine. [...]
Anyhow, I have 8 gigs of ram on the sytem (will obviously be 64-bit
Gentoo) and I want to know how much swap I need. The general rule of
thumb is twice the ram. In this case, it
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 03:16:30PM +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote
I even have set up a ramdisk in /var/tmp/portage for emerge. Except
for kdelibs its 1.5 Gigs are more than enough. And if the ramdisk
is empty, the free space is used for RAM.
Why not use the built-in /dev/shm directly, and
On Monday 21 June 2010 23:04:14 Walter Dnes wrote:
I just got a brand new custom-built 8 gig machine. There's an
outfit in north Toronto that has MSI motherboards with PS/2 ports,
so I can keep my genuine IBM PS/2 clickety-clack-keyboard;
woho. And the integrated Intel graphics
I just got a brand new custom-built 8 gig machine. There's an outfit
in north Toronto that has MSI motherboards with PS/2 ports, so I can
keep my genuine IBM PS/2 clickety-clack-keyboard; woho. And the
integrated Intel graphics chip has *BOTH VGA AND DIGITAL OUTPUTS*!
Anyhow, I have
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 00:04:14 Walter Dnes wrote:
I just got a brand new custom-built 8 gig machine. There's an outfit
in north Toronto that has MSI motherboards with PS/2 ports, so I can
keep my genuine IBM PS/2 clickety-clack-keyboard; woho. And the
integrated Intel graphics
Walter Dnes writes:
I just got a brand new custom-built 8 gig machine. There's an outfit
in north Toronto that has MSI motherboards with PS/2 ports, so I can
keep my genuine IBM PS/2 clickety-clack-keyboard; woho. And the
integrated Intel graphics chip has *BOTH VGA AND DIGITAL
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 00:27 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
Walter Dnes writes:
I just got a brand new custom-built 8 gig machine. There's an outfit
in north Toronto that has MSI motherboards with PS/2 ports, so I can
keep my genuine IBM PS/2 clickety-clack-keyboard; woho. And the
Bill Kenworthy wrote:
SNIP
5. Tune the kernel swappable parameter to either force most everything
to swap to keep ram free or the other way to make it less likely to swap
if thats whats needed. The current parameter is a compromise that works
in most cases, but there are uses that benefit one
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