Marking list as 'all read'

Steve Campbell campbell at cnpapers.com
Sat Sep 9 03:21:07 IST 2006


Quoting Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>:

> Steve Campbell spake the following on 9/8/2006 12:44 PM:
> > Denis,
> > 
> > The question about swapping was on the list months ago, and I'm not sure
> > it was ever answered. I have spent the last few months researching this,
> > sometimes googling for 5-10 hours a day, and no less than 4 hours a day.
> > I think I finally came up with a solution:
> > 
> > I upgraded the server (an IBM AT) with lots more RAM. It now has 64K and
> > it just flies now. I haven't seen any swapping since. The spec are as
> > follows
> > 
> > IBM AT running 3.77 MHz clock. This is just the front side bus, I don't
> > think it has a back side bus. It may not have a front side bus, either.
> > I lost the manual.
> > 64K memory.
> > Advanced SVGA video card, although we run in on a monochrome monitor.
> > No mouse - I couldn't find where to plug it in.
> > 5 MB Winchester hard drive. It thrashes a lot, but I feel comfortable
> > with it. I knocked the whole CPU off of the rack (well, really I forgot
> > to screw in the rails for the rack - I made them myself and it's now a
> > 3U rack-mounted AT) and it performed great after I shook it up a little
> > bit before putting it back in the rack. Boy, I won't do that again!
> > Scary stuff.
> > 
> > I had to build the kernel for our system, for some reason, and had to
> > leave out a whole lot of stuff, but we are running a non-standard CentOS
> > 4.4 system.
> > 
> > Mail flow averages about 1 per month.
> > 
> > Hope this helps.
> > 
> > Steve
> >Hey Steve,
> I am glad to see you finally got rid of that PCjr with the 2 floppy drives!
> Isn't progress grand!!

I didn't get rid of it yet. It's still being used as my firewall and DNS server.
Ain't Linux great!

Steve
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