Felix Miata said the following on 04/14/2013 08:21 AM:
On 2013-04-14 07:26 (GMT-0400) Anton Aylward composed:
...running under a systemd driven openSuse 12.2 on a BtrFS file system on a crappy little 800MHz machine out of the Closet of Anxieties that is running at a mere 800Mhz with a stinking little 1Meg of memory ..
Velly intellestink, considering current openSUSE kernels are about five times your RAM size. :-)
I really said that, didn't I? Well it will teach me (HA HA HA .. as if) not to post late at night. When I run 'top' it says KiB Mem: 1011540 total, 444308 used, 567232 free, 15740 buffers KiB Swap: 1155068 total, 0 used, 1155068 free, 250504 cached That's running 12.3 with xfce, thunderbird and midori and a couple of xterms. If I open up firefox and the 40+ tabs things change somewhat :-)
My first machine owned, a 386DX-25, had 8Meg for running DesqView on DOS both before and after that M$ v3.0 abomination was released. Even my 733MHz i810 system running 12.3 has 384M, including that allocated to its pathetic video.
Its really amazing how Linux can run so well on old, slow, underpowered machines. The only reason I can see that business don't appreciate this is that they don't have the same economic drivers that individuals do. (Or small startup or entrepreneurs etc etc). When the government gives a distorted playing field, that is gives tax write-offs for buying new equipment, there is actually an incentive to send perfectly good equipment to landfill. Sadly the government isn't so keen do deal with landfill and the contamination caused by dumping all that perfectly good equipment. I'm lucky here; nothing gets thrown out - well OK, old disks get destroyed, which can be fun and you can salvage the 'fridge magnets'. So the Closet of Anxieties - old stuff that may or may not work, has been made redundant or too much trouble to debug (its easier/cheaper to replace with new) is there as a pool of 'toys'. It saves a trip to the Thrift Sore :-) Please don't think the company runs on this junk; its just me and a couple of others who treat it as a play-pen. There's an IBM SP3 rack and room full or RAID behind it, plenty of over-powered workstations for the developers etc etc etc. But so long as I have free time, no panics or 'projects', the Closet is mine (OK I share it) to play in. Its one way to keep current :-) -- You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, some time in your life. -- Sir Winston Churchill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org