On 10/29/19 10:46 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote:
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 12:51:41AM -0500, Trent via blfs-support wrote:
I am considering using a very low power Mini-ITX board I got with 8GB of
RAM. The problem is that is has a Celeron N3050 (Asus N3050M-E). While it is
rather newer than all the other available lower power systems I got
available, it for some reason does not support any MMX, or SSE extensions. I
tried running Windows 10 on it. According to the resource meter, Windows 10
has both cores (no hyper threading) pegged in the 90 percentile range
constantly. Meanwhile, the current Atom board I am using now, actually runs
Windows 10 decently.
Anyone know how good, or bad this would do once I got a desktop environment
going?
If you have unpartitioned space, you can set up swap. If you don't
you could probably use a swap file as a temporary measure.
For getting a view of what is going on, you could consider running
'top' in one of the ttys. Getting that set up to be useful takes
some time (the man page is extensive, but hard to navigate) but is
worth the time. On my machines I have it set (for my normal user)
to black and white (in X too I use a black background on terms),
with non-threaded commands, and above that a bar-display for the
activity of each CPU, plus memory and swap usage.
ĸen
Thanks for the tip, Ken.
I have gone ahead and compiled "htop" for my build. I think it gives a
better overview of what is going on than top itself. Also very easy to use.
For the swap space, I was thinking of using gparted to resize the main
partition, then add in the swap of 4GB.
Thanks again!
Trent
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