On Monday 02 June 2003 04:49 pm, FemmeFatale wrote:
> I'm going to be reinstalling (Don't go there stephen) again soon.
> I royally fubared my system. :D. Normal. For me.
>
> heh anyway whenever I've installed it on this new system (With
> VGA LO No less on freaking Radeon 9700!~!!!! pisses me
> off..fastest grafx in the world right now yet i have to install
> in 8bit
> colour...wheeeeeeeeee)...anyway... it installs by default an
> Enterprise AND a normal kernel! it gives me hte option in LILO
> too to choose one at boot time. Which one should I use? Which
> one is better for this system (Specs below snip @ leisure)? And
> is there a reason to NOT use the E. Kernel? Am I courting
> disaster here (as if i don't everytime I use linux
> anyway...disaster for the linux install anyway...not for me. :D).
>
> P4 2.5ghz brand new
> Radeon 9700
> Kingston DDR 333 1 gb of RAM
> Asus P4C800 DX (Deluxe) mobo
> SBLive SC
> Onboard Ethernet (Gigabit) + Onboard sound (disabled ofc)
> Onboard RAID & SATA (which is useless atm...sigh)
>
I have never tried a 1+ GB ram installation but from what I
understand without the enterprize kernel you will not be able to
make use of all your memoryonly around 900 MB.
I have also heard that the E kernel will slow system performance
due to the way it accesses memory and what ever memory management
scheme it uses. I have never seen any data discribing how much it
will slow preformance. Bottom line the system may preform somewhat
faster without the E kernel even though you will have less RAM
unless you are running some application that is the ulitmate memory
hog.
Marc
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