Linux-Hardware Digest #426, Volume #13 Tue, 15 Aug 00 04:13:06 EDT
Contents:
joysticks ("Rich Rudnick")
Re: Coppermine SLOW PERFORMANCE... (moonie;))
PCI ATA controller on 2.2.x? ("Marty Fouts")
Re: Cannon BJC2000 printer (Svend Garnaes)
Re: joysticks and cs461x/cs4280 (Prasanth A. Kumar)
i810 XFree86 4.0 Success! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Dual processor board? (Juergen Pfann)
PCI 512 woes ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Redhat 6.2 and Seagate Scorpion 240 incompatible? ("Bob J.A. Schijvenaars")
Re: Tape Backup Drive Problem ("Bob J.A. Schijvenaars")
a technical question ("Shahriar Mohktari")
FWD: Linux "WheelMouse HowTo." (blowfish)
Re: Caldera and SCO, was Linux on AMD (blowfish)
Re: SoundBlaster AudioPCI 128D ("Troy M. Turner")
Re: Partition Size Advice (John Beardmore)
Re: Partition Size Advice (John Beardmore)
Re: Partition Size Advice (John Beardmore)
PC133 ? (Sandhitsu R Das)
Re: IRQ under Linux (Sebastian Fischmeister)
Re: Install into two physical disks? (Arne Hanssen)
Re: Recommendations for a Modem (Vladimir Florinski)
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From: "Rich Rudnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: joysticks
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 04:10:50 GMT
if no one can answer my previous post 'joysticks and cs461x/cs4280', how about
success stories about the joy-gravis.o module and any sound card?
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Coppermine SLOW PERFORMANCE...
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 00:24:12 -0400
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, John Mazza wrote:
>You might want to check the BIOS settings for CAS latency to make sure that
>you are not experiencing excessive wait states on memory access.
>
><Alvaro Palma Aste [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:8ma86c$dl3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> En comp.os.linux.hardware EKK escribio:
>>
>> Do you have the FPU activated in Kernel?
>> Are you using PC100? Is your Pentium running with FSB at 100Mhz? in
>> this case, probably you have a Pentium at only 490 Mhz (if your
>> Pentium is B (or E, I never can remember what is for Coopermine and
>> what for 133Mhz), the FSB MUST BE 133MHZ!!!
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> Regards from Chile
>>
>> >OK,
>>
>> >I HAVE SAID THIS BEFORE, BUT DIDN'T GET AS MUCH RESPONSE
>> >AS I THOUGH I WOULD.
>>
>> >HAS ANYONE EXPERIENCED BELOW-EXPECTATIONS PERFORMANCE FROM
>> >COPPERMINE PENTIUM III CHIPS?
>>
>> >MY NEW PIII850, PIII650 PERFORM ONLY MARGINALLY BETTER THAN
>> >MY OLD PII450.
>>
>> >CACHE!!!!
>>
>> >IS THIS OR IS THIS NOT AN ISSUE?
>>
>> >SUPPOSEDLY THE NEW 256KB ON-DIE CACHE IS MORE EFFICIENT, BUT
>> >PERHAPS ONLY FOR MUNDANE WINDOWS TASKS. IF I AM RUNNING A
>> >MEMORY-INTENSIVE LARGE PROBLEM THAT IS MOSTLY FLOATING POINT
>> >OPERATIONS, AM I BETTER OFF WITH THE LARGER CACHE.
>> >IT SEEMS TO BE THE CASE WITH OTHER PROCESSORS, LIKE MIPS OR
>> >ALPHA. FOR EXAMPLE THE ALPHA 667MHZ (DP264) HAS A FAT 4MB
>> >CACHE AND IT IS TWICE AS FAST AS A PIII500(512KB CACHE).
>> >ALSO, THE MIPS PROCESSORS FREQUENCY IS BELOW PENTIUM FREQ.
>> >BUT THE LARGER CACHE USUALLY SEEMS TO MAKE UP IN OVERALL
>> >SPEED.
>>
>> >NOW. I KNOW THE ALPHA IS THE FASTEST OUT THERE AND I AM
>> >VERY HAPPY WITH IT, BUT I THOUGHT THAT A PIII850 WOULD AT
>> >LEAST BE 1.5 TIMES FASTER THAN A PII450.
>>
>> >WHAT IS GOING ON?????
>>
>> >SHOULD I JUST RETURN THESE NEW PROCESSORS AND HUNT FOR AN
>> >EXTINCT PIII600MHZ WITH THE OLD-STYLE 512KB CACHE????????
>>
>>
>> >PERPLEXED,
>>
>> >AG
>> >--
>>
>>
>> >P.S.: PLEASE ALSO REFER TO MESSAGE WITH HEADER:
>> >"slow PIII850MHz performance..."
>>
>> >THANK YOU MUCH.
Also have you checked the transfer rates of you HD? This can make a big
difference in how fast Linux "feels". man hdparm
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Stripped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
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From: "Marty Fouts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCI ATA controller on 2.2.x?
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 15:05:23 -0700
We've got some systems that have ATA 33 on the mother board and Promise PCI
ATA/66 cards. Could someone point me at documentation on how to install
drivers and/or configure the kernel to operate properly with both ATA
controllers?
Thanks,
martyy
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From: Svend Garnaes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cannon BJC2000 printer
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 06:59:40 +0200
See:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=89152
HTH
--
Svend
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Subject: Re: joysticks and cs461x/cs4280
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 05:03:50 GMT
"Rich Rudnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> has anyone gotten a joystick to operate with a cs4280? Specifically,
> joy-gravis.o using a blackhawk digital on a 2.2.15-mdk kernel running on an
> emachine 466is with onboard cirrus logic 4280 chip :-), although any
> experience would be appreciated!
So specific advice but did you read the 'joystick.txt' file that comes
with kernel source? It is fairly informative though in your case, it
doesn't elaborate anything more than load the joystick and joy-gravis
modules.
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: i810 XFree86 4.0 Success!
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 05:02:57 GMT
AGPIOC_ACQUIRE problems got you down?
After reading everyone's tale of woe, I have great tidings to share.
Using RedHat 6.2 on a Gateway E-1400 (intel 810 Motherboard)
I got XFree86 version 4.0.1 to work.
Here's how you too can join in the fun!
Step 1: Ignore everything those bastards at Intel tell you!
Do not use their crappy agpgart module!
(you may neet to clean up /etc/conf.modules)
Do not use their kernel patch!
Do not settle for their XFCom Xserver!
Step 2: Install kernel 2.2.16-3, I did it from RedHat's rpms. This
has a very groovy agpgart module that actually works!
Step 3: Install XFree86 4.0.1. I used the binaries and Xinstall.sh.
Step 4: Run xf86config. Don't select a video card, it'll set up a lame
one for you.
Step 5: Go into /etc/X11/XF86Config and find the section
that begins with the comment:
# Device configured by xf86config:
Section "Device"
Identifier "myCard" <-- this will be whatever you choose.
Driver "i810" <-- This you will need to set!!!!!
VideoRam 4096 <-- Probably uncomment this line
EndSection
That's about it. You'll want to edit XF86Config more to
use a non-'Forest Gump' resolution, but I think you can
take it from here.
Intellimouse Users:
If you mouse drives like the "Wild Wacky Action Bike" try
changing this line in the InputDevice section.
Option "Protocol" "IntelliMouse" <-- Wacky
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" <-- Not-Wacky
Don't complain to me if this doesn't work, but you can send
me money if it does.
Only cute linuxgrrlz need reply.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Juergen Pfann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual processor board?
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 07:12:21 +0200
Cokey de Percin wrote:
>
> Chris Rankin wrote:
> >
> > "D. Stimits" wrote:
> > > I have personally talked on the phone for hours with SuperMicro, and
> > > they are simply not interested. They can only quote that it is stable
> > > under NT (which isn't entirely true, but that probably isn't the mobo
> > > problem). I don't know who to ask about supporting this, since
> > > SuperMicro won't even provide information, but possibly Intel is the
> > > next choice, since they have their hopes into both the chipset and
> > > linux. But consider SuperMicro a non-linux-compatible source from now on
> > > (at least for newer chipsets like i840).
>
> Personally, I don't like any of Intels current 8XX chipsets and am
> avoiding them completely. The (next generation?) of dual boards from
> SM and other seem to be using the ServerWorks chip sets. SM recently
> started adv. 3 dual (370) boards with SW chipsets, all having at least 2
> 64x66 PCI and all use SDRAM. This doesn't solve the 840 problem, but
> the future looks better.
>
This will be / is called PIII-DLE (without SCSI or NIC onboard), having
ServerWorks LE chipset. Looks interesting to me, having found the entry
to SMP with my Abit BP6 (I'm writing this post on). Price possibly ~400
$.
Does anyone already have experience with ServerWorks chipsets and Linux
?
And, a class below (in terms of prices), there's VIA Apollo 133A, for
instance on some slightly varying MSI boards, say the MSI 694D Pro AI -
without 64bit PCI, but ATA-100 and IEEE-1394 "instead".
Where do I know all that from ? Well, German magazine "c't", Issue
16/00,
p. 132, had an overview and test of dual boards for Intel CPUs.
Mon Aug 14, issue 17 was released, and the resp. article of issue 16
isn't yet released on the 'net. I guess the URL will be
http://www.heise.de/ct/132, in a few days probably - don't know if
they will translate that article in English, like they do with some of
them...
You might be interested anyway, as it covers some of the aspects
discussed here - albeit without Linux-specific aspects...
HTH
Juergen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PCI 512 woes
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 05:09:37 GMT
Hi,
I have been trying to install SoundBlaster PCI512 on my RedHat 6.2
(Kernel 2.2.12) system. I am using alsa emu10k1 driver to do this. I
went through the regular ./configure, make, make install and added the
following to my /etc/conf.modules
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
#ALSA portion
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1
# OSS/Free portion
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
# OSS/Free portion- card #2
alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss
Unfortunately, the card cannot be detected (works fine on windows) (more
on /dev/dsp returns no device found). When I try to modprobe it
manually, it says that it is unable to grab IRQ 0 for the card. I should
also mention that I have a Rockwell soundcard/modem on my PCI bus, for
which i could not find any drivers.
Any help in this is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Bob J.A. Schijvenaars" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 6.2 and Seagate Scorpion 240 incompatible?
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 07:57:54 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
does anyone here have experience with installing the above tape autoloader
on a Redhat 6.2 box? I can't seem to get it to work properly.
Thnx, Bob
--
________________________________________________________________________
Bob J.A. Schijvenaars [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Medical Informatics, Talk....+31-(0)10 408 8116
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam
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From: "Bob J.A. Schijvenaars" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape Backup Drive Problem
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:00:37 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chan Yick Wai wrote:
> I installed a Seagate Scorpion DDS-3 Tape Driver in my server that is
> running Mandrake 7.0
>
> It works but from periodically it comes across problem that can be
> fixed only by cold boot.
>
> The error is,
>
> fopen:/dev/tty: Device not configured
> /dev/nst0: Input/Output error
I'm sorry I can't help you, I can't even get a Seagate Scorpion 240
DDS-4 autoloader to work under Redhat 6.2. Would you mind sharing the
configuration of your drive?
Bob
--
________________________________________________________________________
Bob J.A. Schijvenaars [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Medical Informatics, Talk....+31-(0)10 408 8116
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam
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From: "Shahriar Mohktari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: a technical question
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 02:01:54 -0400
Hi there,
Suppose you have video card V1 and video card V2. They have the same
characteristic but V1 has 4meg memory and V2 has 8meg memory. Does it make
any difference in the performance of a Linux box if we use any of them for a
low resolution of a monitor? Say 800 * 600.
Shahriar Mokhtari
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: FWD: Linux "WheelMouse HowTo."
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:14:32 -0700
http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/wheelmouselinux/2.shtml
--
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(Have Fun with geek's culture:-Version
2.4-pre-release99999-test-1234567.pre-beta5000.)
- If Vi is God's editor. Then, God must have too much free time on his hands,
lives a very dull and unproductive life; so he needs Vi to waste his time.
But Vi was still too fast. So God created EMACS on the 8th day - which takes
Eight Months to load, And Counting Still...
- The UN-GEEK CODE:(?What is a geek?)-#!?+++??++++|$????+++++?????+++!!!!???+++---
geek + vi | ~/emacs ==>ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!.......:P~
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RaY2(- a drop of golden sun.)
Me3(- A name, I call myself.) FAr4(- A long, long way to run.) Sew5(-A needle
pulling thread.)
lA6(-A note to follow sew.) TeA7(-A drink with jam and bread.) That will bring
us back to DOe-oh-oh-oh.
(c)Copy Righted by Alex / blowfish -2000. All Rights Reserved.
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Re: Caldera and SCO, was Linux on AMD
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:23:20 -0700
Bill Vermillion wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Tony Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >However, I think the purchase could mean very good things
> >for Caldera- they pick up a lot of engineering talent, and
> >of course source code for things Linux currently doesn't
> >have -
>
> Well part of this is exactly why Love left Novell and founded
> Caldera. He believed in Unixware, and He couldn't get those who were
> so enamored of the Novell way to use the Unixware material they acquired
> from USL to even look at it, so he started Caldera. That makes Calerda
> one of the early players in the Linux world - and the plus is that
> it was founded by those who believed in Unixware
>
> Love left in 1994. It was a year later, 1995, when Novell sold the
> USL to SCO. More than a few left Novell when the Netware side came
> on so strong against Unixare.
>
> This is just my opinion/speculation, but given Love's past like of
> Unixware and the fight's he fought for it at Novell, I suspect he's
> had his eye on CSO for a while. I don't know if he was part of the
> group that casued Novell acquire USL in the first place, but I
> wouldn't be surprised. THere's more to Caldera than 'just another
> Linux company'.
>
> I just went to check something and see the SCO Web site has
> reverted to what it was last week instead of the SCO/Caldera
> web page that came up eariler today. This has to be confusing for
> all concerned.
>
Some more confusion to ponder here: IBM is rumoured to buy Novell!
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000814/tc/novell_dc_1.html
> >As to being broken, I have had contrary ...
>
> I had the impression from the other poster that he meant 'broke' in
> terms of no money. Ah - such is this language we call English.
>
> --
> Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
--
- Alex / blowfish.-
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 02:53:36 -0400
From: "Troy M. Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster AudioPCI 128D
Actually, my SoundBlaster PCI 128 has a 1370 chip in it.
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Partition Size Advice
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 16:27:30 +0100
In article <8n6111$40g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter T. Breuer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>In comp.os.linux.hardware John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>: writes
>
>:>> 6.4GB Hd...
>:>> /usr = 5GB
>:>> /root = 500MB
>:>> /home = 500MB
>:>> /swap = 127MB
>
>: Apart from weight of tradition, why do usr, root and home have to be
>: different partitions ?
>
>So that /usr can be read-only and /home can be read-write.
What's so great about /usr being ro ?
> (I assume he
>means / istead of /root).
I think so.
> So that everytime you mess up your home
>partition you don't also mess up your /.
But why should you mess up your home partition ? Indeed how can you ?
> And vice versa. So that you
>can comfortably clone your OS without also cloning your own files.
Can't this just be done by keeping user files under /usr and managing
files rather than partitions ?
> And
>vice versa. So you can upgrade or multi-install in functional units.
>Etc. Etc.
Hmmmm... OK.
>He forgot to list /var as a separate partition. That's quite important.
>I really hate runaway log files growing to swamp / or /home.
So it's just to limit the size of a file system ?
>If you really don't know this and you aren't just trolling, go check
>out the Partition-HOWTO.
No, not trolling, just curious.
I had thought of doing a custom instal but wondered if my ideas on
partitioning would be making myself a headache for later.
>There are some legitimate reasons for making a one partition system.
>They boil down to "the owner is an idiot and/or doesn't care about
>preserving and maintaining his system, so he might as well do the
>laziest thing available, as he'll throw it all away tomorrow anyhow".
I don't really see that.
I have one partition disks on other OSs and I've never found it a
problem.
I've also had one partition Unix systems without regret. I'm just
seeing if the dogma stems from sound reasoning or just a fear that the
sky will fall in if tradition is not followed.
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Partition Size Advice
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 16:32:18 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dances With
Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Swapspace is (usually) kept on a partition instead of in the filesystem
>because doing so results in a performance increase. The swapper doesn't
>have to deal with the filesystem and can just write to the raw disk, you
>see... Since partitions must have a fixed size, that *can* mean that
>your swap space is fixed in size.
OK, neat !
>Naturally, it doesn't have to. You can do this to add 128M of swap to a
>system that needs it:
># dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=128
># sync && sync
># mkswap /swapfile && swapon /swapfile
>
>Remove it by doing
># swapoff /swapfile && rm /swapfile
And neater. And this coexists with any existing swap spare rather than
replacing it ?
And swap off will just shift stuff out of the deallocated swap file and
delete it ?
>You *can* have a Linux box without any swap space at all. It's a really
>bad idea on machines with < 128M,
I should be OK then.
> and it's not really a good idea even
>on machines with a lot of RAM. Basically, if there's swap space, things
>that don't get used will be shuffled off to the swap, leaving more room
>in RAM for heavily used things and/or disk caching.
OK. So rule of thumb for sizing a swap partition from RAM size ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Partition Size Advice
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 16:36:08 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes
>John Beardmore wrote:
>>
>>
>> What's the rationale for sizing swap partitions ?
>>
>> In Win32, the rule of thumb seems to be to have an initial swap file
>> size that is say 1.5 time the size of physical ram, and perhaps to let
>> it grow bigger if needs be.
>>
>> How sensible would it be on say a 512 meg ram Linux box to have a mere
>> 64 or 128 meg swap partition ? Can a Linux box be configured without a
>> swap partition at all ? My gut feeling is that it would be a bit of a
>> waste of space ! By the time you needed it at all, you'd be more or
>> less totally out of space !
>>
>You can run with no swap. But there are two problems.
>
>If you run out of virtual memory, Linux will kill some process. If it
>is a critical process, like init, you are hosed.
OK.
> With no swap, your
>size of your virtual memory is the size of your physical memory.
>Ideally, you would have enough physical memory for all of the
>applications that you want to run. In practice, once in a while, some
>program will grab more memory than you expected. Better to have it
>page and slow down than just crash.
OK.
>In normal operation, you benefit from swap even when programs are not
>using much memory. Pages that are not being used can be paged out,
>freeing memory for use as cache. Every system has processes that only
>sit there waiting for something to happen. And even processes that
>are executing have chunks of code and data that aren't in current
>use. Without swap, they take up RAM. With swap, those pages move to
>swap, and more RAM is available to buffer disk access. Performance
>improves.
OK.
>How much is too much? Depends on your needs. Paging because memory
>is needed, as opposed to paging due to inactivity, will slow down your
>system. You may decide that slow enough is as good as crashed.
>That's the maximum amount of swap you want. You might also look at
>quotas. But there are people running applications with huge data sets
>that can use large amounts of swap without large amounts of paging -
>because of good locality of access.
OK.
>My desktop has a somewhat excessive 640MB of RAM, and 256MB of swap.
>If I actually use up the swap, something's gone wrong. But disk space
>is cheap, so there is little reason to make it smaller. It's the same
>swap as when I had 128MB of RAM.
OK.
>Note that there are some Unix systems where the size of the swap space
>sets the size of the virtual memory. In those cases, swap will be
>larger than RAM. That's not the case with Linux, so there's no direct
>connection between RAM size and swap size. Except that the answer to
>how much RAM and how much swap is the same: "Enough."
Thanks.
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: Sandhitsu R Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PC133 ?
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 03:12:56 -0400
I am using Mandrake 7.1 - is there any way to know if my memory is running
at 133MHz ?
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: IRQ under Linux
From: Sebastian Fischmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 15 Aug 2000 09:20:25 +0200
Hi Antony.
I have the same problem. My notebook shares the IRQ 11 between 5
devices (vga, cardbus, usb, ir, soundcard). Fortunately the cardbus is working
properly, so I can use the network. For X I am using the framebuffer
server and it is working well too.
Now the interesting thing is, that these two devices (cardbus, vga
controller) work properly and share the IRQ. But when I compile a new
kernel and include the other stuff (usb, ir, soundcard) the notebook
hangs during starting the kernel.
Try compiling your own kernel and make everything a module (also
exclude pcmcia support!). Then grab the latest version of pcmcia-cs
from http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ and compile the modules.
I am still struggling with the IR, USB and the soundcard, but at least
the network is up and I can work.
Good luck,
-Sebastian
PS: See the posting "Multiple devices share one IRQ" in
comp.os.linux.hardware
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arne Hanssen)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.list
Subject: Re: Install into two physical disks?
Reply-To: ahh-AT-go.enitelia.no
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 07:42:46 GMT
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Tim Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have an old PC I'd like to install the server version of Red Hat 6.2 =
>on. The manual says I need six partitions totaling 1.616 gigs. What I =
>have are two 1.2 gig drives.=20
Six?!? As far as I know you can get away with two (swap and / (root)),
however, most will recommend putting /home on its own partition.
>Do all the partitions have to be on one drive, or can I split them up? =
>Yes, I know that even the two drives don't leave me with a lot of =
>breathing room, but this only to play with for the learning experience. =
If your disks are non-SCSI (i.e. IDE) and have more than 1024 cylinders
I would recommend making a small partition of, say 10 MB, at the begin-
ning of the (preferably) first disk and assigning it for '/boot' - thus
ensuring that the kernel (vmlinuz) will be located within cylinder 1023.
Giving that you have two 1.2GB disks, I could suggest the following:
- disk 1 (hda): /boot 12 MB
swap 127 MB (cannot be larger than 128 MB)
/home <remaining disk space - ca. 1000 MB>
- disk 2 (hdb): / 1200 MB (whole disk)
If you don't need 1 GB for /home, you could consider making /home
smaller and creating f.ex. a separate partition for /var (or just for
/var/spool), as temporary files (especially /var/spool if you run
mail and/or news on this server) can make use of conciderably disk
space - and putting this on its own partition (and the partition runs
out of space), only the /var[/spool] partition is affected, not the
system's root (/). At least this is what I've learned - hopefully
this is correct! ;-)
--
mvh.
Arne Hanssen
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From: Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recommendations for a Modem
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 00:19:27 -0700
Pankaj Deshpande wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am trying to replace my winmodem with
> something that works well with linux and also
> not too costly. I looked at 3Com site
> and the modems that are documented to be
> supported in Linux have price tag of around $100.
> Can someone please suggest a cheaper modem
> that is known to be working fine with Linux ?
>
These $100 US Robotics modems are available for $50 elsewhere if you know where
to look (hint: go for OEM versions and shop online).
--
Vladimir
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