It might just be that I'm an idiot, but I have an SX164 that when I installed any distro of linux that it would fail on some error, I can't remember what error it was though, the last install that was good was about 5 years ago w/ red hat 5.2 (I think) but I placed FreeBSD on it and it has no problems now
-----Original Message----- From: Christopher C. Chimelis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher C. Chimelis Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 11:09 PM To: Rob Byrnes Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Slllloooowwww Alpha On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Rob Byrnes wrote: > It was brand new RAM, ordered from Crucial. I had it replaced, but got the > same problems. Checks like these *should* slow a machine down, > right? Under FreeBSD, there is no noticable slowdown .... I'll try turning > logging on for the checks and see if I actually am getting them It should, assuming that there's some attempt to handle the checks, IIRC (been a long while since I looked at that bit of the code). It may not have been the RAM, but that tends to be it in most cases. > Debian Woody runs sweet on my PC64 though. :-) C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
