Hi, I am purchasing some hardware for a server on a small network and am
a little unclear on a couple of points.
It seems to be a popular suggestion in the windows world to NOT get 4GB
of ram for a windows box due to the limitations in the ability of
windows to fully address all 4GB given a 32bit operating system. Is the
same true of linux generally speaking, and that there is little point in
getting 4GB? If there is the limit, and you had 4BG worth of RAM
installed, is 3.8 or 3.9 or whatever useable, or is it the entire 4th
chip that becomes unuseable? Assume I am using a 32bit distro...
I like the idea of using a raid 1 configuration that is offered by
motherboards now to provide data redundancy, and am interested to learn
how a linux distro deals with this, given this is set up in the bios.
Is this just a trivial setup in that once set up in the bios there is
nothing more to do, with linux then just treating the 2 hard drives as a
single drive? Or is there somewhat more to this?
Last question (whoops, more than a couple of points): if you have a 400W
power supply for example, is this always drawing power from the mains at
400W regardless of what is being drawn internally from the motherboard
and components attached to it?
Thanks for any comments anyone feels like contributing.
Roger
