On 14 Oct 2009, at 21:34, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 22:21:38 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
I remember standing in front of two Sun servers with 4gb each a
couple of
years ago.
I was stuck in awe. So much ram.
I have 3 of those monsters in my decommissioned stores tha
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 22:48:56 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:34:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Bring a 1 ton truck. Those beasts are big and heavy. Very heavy. It
> > takes four of our big lads to pick them up.
>
> Why not put one behind that SUV the next time he parks i
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 22:40:58 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Alan McKinnon schrieb:
> > Bring a 1 ton truck. Those beasts are big and heavy. Very heavy. It takes
> > four of our big lads to pick them up.
>
> It was a mixture of fascination and disappointment seeing those 2 "big"
> servers a
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:34:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Bring a 1 ton truck. Those beasts are big and heavy. Very heavy. It
> takes four of our big lads to pick them up.
Why not put one behind that SUV the next time he parks in the disabled
bay? ;-)
--
Neil Bothwick
Diarrhoea is hereditary
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb:
>> What for? Just to get back to the initial topic of the thread ;-)
>
> /var/tmp/portage
> /tmp
>
> oh:
> free
> total used free sharedbuffers cached
> Mem: 81858368108312 77524 0 06067212
>
Alan McKinnon schrieb:
> Bring a 1 ton truck. Those beasts are big and heavy. Very heavy. It takes
> four
> of our big lads to pick them up.
It was a mixture of fascination and disappointment seeing those 2 "big"
servers and the (entry-level ... ok)-SAN with just 4U in sum ...
times are a-chan
On Mittwoch 14 Oktober 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 October 2009 22:21:38 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > I remember standing in front of two Sun servers with 4gb each a couple of
> > years ago.
> > I was stuck in awe. So much ram.
>
> I have 3 of those monsters in my decommissione
On Mittwoch 14 Oktober 2009, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb:
> > I remember standing in front of two Sun servers with 4gb each a couple of
> > years ago.
> > I was stuck in awe. So much ram.
>
> Yes. I remember as well.
>
> "Why 128 MB RAM in that workstation? Are you
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 22:21:38 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> I remember standing in front of two Sun servers with 4gb each a couple of
> years ago.
> I was stuck in awe. So much ram.
I have 3 of those monsters in my decommissioned stores that you are more than
welcome to come and fetch t
Alan McKinnon schrieb:
> On Wednesday 14 October 2009 18:55:34 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>> At least there I know how to make use of it ...
>
> At least this OT thread isn't as insanely OT as the checksum one :-)
uuuh, I am OT ?? ;-)
Haven't checked the checksum-thread, does it use RAM ?? ;-)
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb:
> I remember standing in front of two Sun servers with 4gb each a couple of
> years ago.
> I was stuck in awe. So much ram.
Yes. I remember as well.
"Why 128 MB RAM in that workstation? Are you sure we need that much? It
costs!"
> Today my desktop has 8gb - and I
On Mittwoch 14 Oktober 2009, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Dale schrieb:
> > Does a Vic 20 count? It had 4K of ram. I bet KDE 4 would run fast on
> > that. LOL
> >
> > At least it wasn't running winders.
>
> I remember upgrading my 8088 from 128 kB to 640 kB, it was about 50 EUR
> (back then th
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 18:55:34 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Dale schrieb:
> > Does a Vic 20 count? It had 4K of ram. I bet KDE 4 would run fast on
> > that. LOL
> >
> > At least it wasn't running winders.
>
> I remember upgrading my 8088 from 128 kB to 640 kB, it was about 50 EUR
> (bac
Dale schrieb:
> Does a Vic 20 count? It had 4K of ram. I bet KDE 4 would run fast on
> that. LOL
>
> At least it wasn't running winders.
I remember upgrading my 8088 from 128 kB to 640 kB, it was about 50 EUR
(back then there was no EUR, sure) ..
I feel kinda old thinking of this ;-)
And t
KH wrote:
> pk schrieb:
>> Dale wrote:
>>
>>> I think mine has a 3Gb limit too. I have two installed tho. It works
>>> well for me.
>>
>> I think someone (in?)famous said: "640K is more memory than anyone will
>> ever need..." ;-)
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Peter K
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> my first Mac had 2
pk schrieb:
Dale wrote:
I think mine has a 3Gb limit too. I have two installed tho. It works
well for me.
I think someone (in?)famous said: "640K is more memory than anyone will
ever need..." ;-)
Best regards
Peter K
Hi,
my first Mac had 256kb. I upgraded it to 1mb because kit had one
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 13:31:09 pk wrote:
> Dale wrote:
> > I think mine has a 3Gb limit too. I have two installed tho. It works
> > well for me.
>
> I think someone (in?)famous said: "640K is more memory than anyone will
> ever need..." ;-)
Well, it wasn't Bill Gates (just in case that'
Dale wrote:
> I think mine has a 3Gb limit too. I have two installed tho. It works
> well for me.
I think someone (in?)famous said: "640K is more memory than anyone will
ever need..." ;-)
Best regards
Peter K
KH wrote:
> Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
> [snip]
>>
>> As I see I am not even able to use much RAM with several (vmware-)VMs
>> running, so the 8 gigs will maybe stay some number to impress *some*
>> people with (until everyone gets 8 gigs into their supermarket-PCs).
>>
>> Anyway.
>> Stefan
>>
>
KH schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> my motherboard cannot go above 3gigs so I am very impressed ;-)
Wow, at last one ;-)
S
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
[snip]
As I see I am not even able to use much RAM with several (vmware-)VMs
running, so the 8 gigs will maybe stay some number to impress *some*
people with (until everyone gets 8 gigs into their supermarket-PCs).
Anyway.
Stefan
Hi,
my motherboard cannot go ab
Joshua Murphy schrieb:
> Yep! sys-apps/preload goes a long way to automate what I did with
> busybox's readahead tool, and I'm about 99% certain they both make the
> same system call to do the work anyways... it's all a matter of how &
> where they get their list of *what* to fetch... I, as I said
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Joshua Murphy schrieb:
>
>> Non-ricer? Well... this sorta breaks that category.
>
> ;-)
>
>> There's a rather handy tool[1] already in the stage3, I've used it
>> alongside bootchart to force-load everything needed into ram during
>> b
Joshua Murphy schrieb:
> Non-ricer? Well... this sorta breaks that category.
;-)
> There's a rather handy tool[1] already in the stage3, I've used it
> alongside bootchart to force-load everything needed into ram during
> boot, before it's needed, so execution gets held up by i/o just a
> little
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>
> Greets, gentoo-users,
>
> as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main
> workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for
> the "old" 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new additi
Alan McKinnon schrieb:
>> you could regularly measure your disk speed by coping huge amounts of
>> data to a second ram-disk, and back. Then you have a good knowledge of
>> read and write speed of your hdd :-)
Ah, yes, that's a serious thing to do ;-)
>> I often use the ram disk for creating i
Dale schrieb:
KH wrote:
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
Greets, gentoo-users,
as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main
workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for
the "old" 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new additional
4 gigs.
O
KH wrote:
> Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
>> Greets, gentoo-users,
>>
>> as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main
>> workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for
>> the "old" 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new additional
>> 4 gigs.
>
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 00:09:23 KH wrote:
> > I will give my virtual machines more RAM to improve their performance,
> > yes, this is maybe the main reason for me to upgrade RAM.
> >
> > But are there any other things I might forget?
> >
> > Are there any creative non-ricer ways to really mak
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
Greets, gentoo-users,
as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main
workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for
the "old" 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new additional 4 gigs.
OK, linux uses it for IO-ca
Greets, gentoo-users,
as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main
workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for
the "old" 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new additional 4 gigs.
OK, linux uses it for IO-caching, yep ...
I have some ram
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