On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 03:46:57PM -0400, Cory Waters wrote: > Scott Loveless wrote: > > Cory Waters wrote: > > > >> I've been spending some time this weekend reconfiguring an old computer > >> to be a (supposedly) simple home server. the process is taking a lot > >> longer than I'd hoped. That's mainly because the computer is pretty > >> slow but also because I've never done this before and I'm a total noob. > >> Interesting work but my back is hurting from these chairs... > >> > >> CW > >> > >> > > I'm a perpetual noob when it comes to these things, but I have run Linux > > off and on for the past 8 years or so. Just out of curiosity, what > > distribution are you using? > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > I found a step-by step from a guy who built a headless file, FTP, P2P > server using an old PC and the Xubuntu distribution. It turns out there > are a lot of holes in his example. Some of that is because of my > immense dearth of knowledge in this area and some of it is my newer > version of the software. It's running, but the computer is REALLY > slow...The CPU is averaging 100%. Don't know if something is eating up > all the cycles or if the CPU is just that old. It's an old AMD of some > sort. And honestly I don't know if it's really working as a server or > not yet let alone controlling it from another location or whatever.. I > have a lot of questions... But I'm off to Minn-e-so-ta for a couple days > of training on the Yamaha PM5D so I can't really mess with it at the moment. > > CW > the Linux lummox
Something is eating the cycles. As long as you've got a halfway decent CPU (an 800MHz pentium is more than sufficient) and 256MB of memory you have more than enough power for a useful Linux system. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
