On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Bill Moseley wrote:
I put SuSe 6.3 on a old P133 with 32Mb I had. Turns out that I'm using it 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 problems?
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?
3) Any suggestions on motherboards? I don't want to spend more than a few hundred USDs
(1) Your CPU is currently 95% idle and you're apparently maxed out on RAM. I'd say your immediate need is RAM. (2) I have used an AMD K6-2/300 to do an install, and then moved the hard drive to a different box with an Intel 486/33. It works. Just remember where you're going: choose the right kernel, and the right options, for the real target, not the install machine. (Just FYI, in my experience if you install Windows 95 on one machine, then move the drive to a different machine that has the *same* model processor and motherboard, and all the same cards in the same slots, it's probably messed up.) (3) I recently popped for a Soyo motherboard (SY-5EH5 if I'm reading the right box), K6-2/500, fan, and 64M RAM. Set me back US$250. It's a serious deal with a catch: the physical layout of the motherboard is not well thought out. You have ONE long PCI slot (dictated where the video card went). The other two can't take long cards because the processor fan is in the way. Maybe if Transmeta produces some of their below-bathwater-temperature processors for the Socket 7 motherboard, this arrangement could work, but it has a problem with current Intel and AMD frying pans. -- 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/