James, Thanks for the info on Linux memory usage- that's really good stuff to know. And I do agree, Mandrake is very good right out of the box- it's definitely the best distro I've used so far, and I find it ridiculous when people talk about Mandrake's "bloated OS." Their kernel is certainly not bloated, as most of the options are modules, and just because you have a lot of packages installed on your hard drive doesn't mean they are all loaded at any given time- to me, it just seems irrelevant to any concept of a "bloated OS. I just don't get what these people mean by Mandrake is "bloated."
I guess without thinking I got into a habit of calling the swap partition "swapfile," as I always put the windows swapfile on it's own partition. I have been experimenting with preemptive/low-latency kernels a little bit, and am gradually gaining a little knowledge on this aspect- can't wait for the 2.6 kernel to be released. Robert C. On Thursday 27 February 2003 03:20 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 06:59, flacycads wrote: > > Since this little tibit of info in useful if you are dual booting with > > winME/98/95 and Linux with more than 512MB ram, I'll submit it. There is > > no problem with higher versions of windows. > > > > The thing to do is set the MaxFileCache setting in System.ini to 512MB or > > > Robert Crawford > > In relation to your actual question... With RAM no tweaks are really > needed until you get above 4gigs. ... I'd say it's safe to say most of > us don't have near that much in the majority of our boxes. Above 1gig > the enterprise kernel will improve performance more because it uses the > ram more effectively. As for swap. Linux doesn't use a swapfile (it > could but doesn't) it uses a swap partition. Dedicated to being only > swap and never changing in size. (or on my box never being used > either.... *grin*) The tweaks that seem to be the best on Linux come > less with modifying the way it starts and more with modifying the way > the hardware works, or in doing heavy changes to the kernel itself (Like > low latency kernels, hyper-threading etc.) However for about 90% of the > people/usage it's pretty darn optimized out of the box. MDK and the > others are pretty good about making things work well together. > > James
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