Joshua Murphy schrieb:
Yep! sys-apps/preload goes a long way to automate what I did with
busybox's readahead tool, and I'm about 99% certain they both make the
same system call to do the work anyways... it's all a matter of how
where they get their list of *what* to fetch... I, as I said,
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
[snip]
As I see I am not even able to use much RAM with several (vmware-)VMs
running, so the 8 gigs will maybe stay some number to impress *some*
people with (until everyone gets 8 gigs into their supermarket-PCs).
Anyway.
Stefan
Hi,
my motherboard cannot go
KH schrieb:
Hi,
my motherboard cannot go above 3gigs so I am very impressed ;-)
Wow, at last one ;-)
S
KH wrote:
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
[snip]
As I see I am not even able to use much RAM with several (vmware-)VMs
running, so the 8 gigs will maybe stay some number to impress *some*
people with (until everyone gets 8 gigs into their supermarket-PCs).
Anyway.
Stefan
Hi,
my
Dale wrote:
I think mine has a 3Gb limit too. I have two installed tho. It works
well for me.
I think someone (in?)famous said: 640K is more memory than anyone will
ever need... ;-)
Best regards
Peter K
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 13:31:09 pk wrote:
Dale wrote:
I think mine has a 3Gb limit too. I have two installed tho. It works
well for me.
I think someone (in?)famous said: 640K is more memory than anyone will
ever need... ;-)
Well, it wasn't Bill Gates (just in case that's what
pk schrieb:
Dale wrote:
I think mine has a 3Gb limit too. I have two installed tho. It works
well for me.
I think someone (in?)famous said: 640K is more memory than anyone will
ever need... ;-)
Best regards
Peter K
Hi,
my first Mac had 256kb. I upgraded it to 1mb because kit had one
KH wrote:
pk schrieb:
Dale wrote:
I think mine has a 3Gb limit too. I have two installed tho. It works
well for me.
I think someone (in?)famous said: 640K is more memory than anyone will
ever need... ;-)
Best regards
Peter K
Hi,
my first Mac had 256kb. I upgraded it to 1mb
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 18:55:34 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Dale schrieb:
Does a Vic 20 count? It had 4K of ram. I bet KDE 4 would run fast on
that. LOL
At least it wasn't running winders.
I remember upgrading my 8088 from 128 kB to 640 kB, it was about 50 EUR
(back then
On Mittwoch 14 Oktober 2009, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Dale schrieb:
Does a Vic 20 count? It had 4K of ram. I bet KDE 4 would run fast on
that. LOL
At least it wasn't running winders.
I remember upgrading my 8088 from 128 kB to 640 kB, it was about 50 EUR
(back then there was no
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb:
I remember standing in front of two Sun servers with 4gb each a couple of
years ago.
I was stuck in awe. So much ram.
Yes. I remember as well.
Why 128 MB RAM in that workstation? Are you sure we need that much? It
costs!
Today my desktop has 8gb - and I am
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 22:21:38 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
I remember standing in front of two Sun servers with 4gb each a couple of
years ago.
I was stuck in awe. So much ram.
I have 3 of those monsters in my decommissioned stores that you are more than
welcome to come and fetch
On Mittwoch 14 Oktober 2009, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb:
I remember standing in front of two Sun servers with 4gb each a couple of
years ago.
I was stuck in awe. So much ram.
Yes. I remember as well.
Why 128 MB RAM in that workstation? Are you sure we
On Mittwoch 14 Oktober 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 22:21:38 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
I remember standing in front of two Sun servers with 4gb each a couple of
years ago.
I was stuck in awe. So much ram.
I have 3 of those monsters in my decommissioned stores
Alan McKinnon schrieb:
Bring a 1 ton truck. Those beasts are big and heavy. Very heavy. It takes
four
of our big lads to pick them up.
It was a mixture of fascination and disappointment seeing those 2 big
servers and the (entry-level ... ok)-SAN with just 4U in sum ...
times are a-changing
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb:
What for? Just to get back to the initial topic of the thread ;-)
/var/tmp/portage
/tmp
oh:
free
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem: 81858368108312 77524 0 06067212
-/+
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:34:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Bring a 1 ton truck. Those beasts are big and heavy. Very heavy. It
takes four of our big lads to pick them up.
Why not put one behind that SUV the next time he parks in the disabled
bay? ;-)
--
Neil Bothwick
Diarrhoea is hereditary,
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 22:40:58 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Alan McKinnon schrieb:
Bring a 1 ton truck. Those beasts are big and heavy. Very heavy. It takes
four of our big lads to pick them up.
It was a mixture of fascination and disappointment seeing those 2 big
servers and the
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 22:48:56 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:34:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Bring a 1 ton truck. Those beasts are big and heavy. Very heavy. It
takes four of our big lads to pick them up.
Why not put one behind that SUV the next time he parks in the
On 14 Oct 2009, at 21:34, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 22:21:38 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
I remember standing in front of two Sun servers with 4gb each a
couple of
years ago.
I was stuck in awe. So much ram.
I have 3 of those monsters in my decommissioned stores
Alan McKinnon schrieb:
you could regularly measure your disk speed by coping huge amounts of
data to a second ram-disk, and back. Then you have a good knowledge of
read and write speed of your hdd :-)
Ah, yes, that's a serious thing to do ;-)
I often use the ram disk for creating iso
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote:
Greets, gentoo-users,
as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main
workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for
the old 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new
Joshua Murphy schrieb:
Non-ricer? Well... this sorta breaks that category.
;-)
There's a rather handy tool[1] already in the stage3, I've used it
alongside bootchart to force-load everything needed into ram during
boot, before it's needed, so execution gets held up by i/o just a
little
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote:
Joshua Murphy schrieb:
Non-ricer? Well... this sorta breaks that category.
;-)
There's a rather handy tool[1] already in the stage3, I've used it
alongside bootchart to force-load everything needed into ram during
Greets, gentoo-users,
as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main
workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for
the old 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new additional 4 gigs.
OK, linux uses it for IO-caching, yep ...
I have some
KH wrote:
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
Greets, gentoo-users,
as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main
workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for
the old 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new additional
4 gigs.
OK, linux
Dale schrieb:
KH wrote:
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
Greets, gentoo-users,
as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main
workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for
the old 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new additional
4 gigs.
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