[KLUG Members] Laptop Purchase Opinions Please

[bert]

Is there any way to find out what the maximum of supported memory is? 
I'll guess that top will not show more memory than supported, but than I
have to put at least more than 2G in to check this.
Would a kernel compiled to support just the available amount of memory,
be noticeable faster? I have webserver running that sometimes needs to
go into swapping (mostly due to havy database access). Okee, I could
upgrade to more than 2GB, but If the swapping process could be handled
more efficiently perhaps that would not be necessary. And most of the
time the server runs fine.
I have a laptop with only 512MB would it be smart to compile for only
512MB available? Especially  with those lazy laptop drives any better
drive management is welcome.

Regards,
Bert


Tony Mattas wrote:
>
>
> Remember that a lot of standard Linux kernels don't support more than
> 2GB unless you rebuild it, although not a big deal just a
> consideration to make. Also some support up to 4 by default, if you 
> only have 2 I would rebuild it to support a maximum of two (better
> paging and such, I could get into the details but don't want to be
> confusing)
>
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