Compaqs are rather wierd machines... (and I was being undeservedly nice there.)
Yes, there is a sorta system dependancy -- Anything But Compaq. 8) GB is based on one of the free BSD OSs. There is a design defect with MOST older Compaq systems (I have three in my basement, 100% failure, plus heard about many others from other people) and most free Unix-like OSs (apparently, not with Linux, but I bet if you dig through the source, I bet you will find a Compaq specific fix). I understand the problem exists with OpenBSD (personal experience), NetBSD, FreeBSD, and even some commercial Unix packages, too (this might explain that bizzare question in some Compaq boxes in the configuration program about what OS is to be run on the system). It has been reported that a ROM update for the Compaq can resolve the problem on OpenBSD, and I rather doubt Compaq reved the ROMs *just* for OpenBSD. I haven't tried this myself, you may have trouble getting ROM updates for your machines -- I made a brief attempt at flashing the ROMs on my Proliant 1500, something didn't work (no dammage done, just reported something that left me with the impression that my Proliant doesn't have flash ROMs), then decided that I didn't need a P75 that drew that many watts and didn't persue it. 8) GB-Light supports a maximum of 200 connections. According to the manual (which is admittedly inaccurate in this area), 8M of RAM will support 3072 connections -- with 16M of RAM, you have a lot of fudge space for the E-mail proxy. I rather doubt that the E-mail proxy nearly doubles the RAM requirement of GB-light...do you have hard info to the contrary? The only thing additional RAM would be used for would be proxy data -- remember the program all fits on a 1.4M floppy! There is just a limit to how much proxy data one needs when you are capped at 200 connections. 8) If you were running GB-Pro, I'd want to be able to max it out (32M), but unless you are considering an upgrade to GB-Pro, I'd just set it up and enjoy -- and possibly pull that extra 16M from the Prolinea 4/33, as that 72pin RAM is getting expensive. 8) Nick. GNATBox Mailing List wrote: > I am putting together a system for GB-lite. I have tried both a compaq > prolinea 4/33 (486/33) and a compaq deskpro xe 560 (p5-60) system > and it appears that GNATBox will only report/recognize 16MB of memory. > > In the 560 there is 40 MB and in another I tried I had 72MB. In the 4/33 > there is 32 MB of RAM. I have loaded linux on the 560 systems and it > recognizes all the RAM properly, it is just GNATbox that does not see it all. > > Is there some wierd dependancy on the system type with GNATbox when it comes > to RAM recognition? > > I want GNATbox to have/use at least 24 MB for the sake of the email > proxy functions otherwise and I aware that 16MB is fine. > > -- > Darren Besler
