[KLUG Members] Laptop Purchase Opinions Please

[bert]

My laptop is a Toshiba satellite running Suse 10.2
The webserver is a running Centos.

I will check Curcial out this week.

Regards,
Bert.



Tony Mattas wrote:
> If your referring to the kernel, It can be found through proc normally.
>
> If your talking hardware it can be found through crucial.com normally.
> Let me know I can tell you where to find it in proc. What distro is it?
>
> bert wrote:
>> 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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