I never really knew much about AMD offerings. This one is a K6 3D and there's 309MB of memory (!)
CW drew wrote: > John Francis wrote: > >> 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. >> >> >> > > I would concur, I had a dual Pentium Pro 200 with 256Mb, It was quite > happy serving my website, email, Unreal Tournament and file server for > the home... never really topped more than 60% load. > > Drew. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 270.0.0/1490 - Release Date: 6/8/2008 5:32 > PM > -- 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.
