I have a trinity MB from Tyan, and aside from a blown IDE controller on the original board (replaced under warranty) everything works great, I run an AMDk6-2/400 and 64 MB of pc100 RAM, works just dandy... I used to have a tomcat, and it worked like a champ too, so I'd say tyan is pretty safe as far as that goes...
-----Original Message----- From: Nick Zentena [mailto:zentena@hophead.dyndns.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 10:49 AM To: Bill Moseley Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Motherboard Upgrade
Bill Moseley wrote:
I put SuSe 6.3 on a old P133 with 32Mb I had. Turns out
more than I thought.
This is just a home machine.
Right now I'm indexing with Swish about 6000 small html files. Poor thing is swapping like crazy. The swish process is using 29M just itself. CPU is 95% idle. It's state is often 'D' in top, which I guess is waiting on IO?
3 questions:
1) Is P133 enough CPU and will loading up on memory solve my
that I'm using it problems?
I don't know but it sounds like you need more memory. One thing is I guess the board is using SIMMS. Around here Simms are EXPENSIVE. I think the only thing still using them are printers so the prices have been jacked up.
From the top manpage. D for uninterruptible sleep
2) Otherwise, say I want to upgrade the motherboard and
memory together.
Will I be lucky enough to drop in a new motherboard and Linux will boot, or do I need to go through installation again?
I'd like an answer to this to.
3) Any suggestions on motherboards? I don't want to spend
more than a few
hundred USDs
You can get very good motherboards for $200 US. You can get very good ones for about $200 CDN. Actually even less if you look around. A couple of possible issues. I'm guessing the system is in an AT case? If so you either need a new ATX case or a good AT based motherboard. Around here the Asus P5-B [I think thats the right model] is not much over $120 cdn. $85US??. Add your favorite AMD cpu and some memory.
If you want to switch over to ATX then it will cost you more but you get plenty of choices. A local company has an ad for a Tyan S1834 Tiger 133 which sounds like an interesting board. Anybody know how well the VIA chipset works under Linux?
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"Fent, Lee" wrote:
I have a trinity MB from Tyan, and aside from a blown IDE controller on the original board (replaced under warranty) everything works great, I run an AMDk6-2/400 and 64 MB of pc100 RAM, works just dandy... I used to have a tomcat, and it worked like a champ too, so I'd say tyan is pretty safe as far as that goes...
Actually I'm more worried about the chipset. Via Apollo Pro?? I think that's right. The price is right if the website ad isn't wrong. $200CDN [$140US] for a dual slot one board with all the other goodies. So if the chipset isn't some sort of dog I wouldn't mind picking one up this summer. It sounds nice. Nick -- Nick Zentena "The Linux issue," Wladawsky-Berger explained, "is whether this is a fundamentally disruptive technology, like the microprocessor and the Internet? We're betting that it is." -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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