RAM Disks in YDL 2.3

Kristian T. Sørensen yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Mar 27 00:42:01 2003


Hi - as far as I know, the original iMacs ("bondi blue" and "five flavors")
have two PC66 SO-DIMM RAM slots, and should provide you with the option op
putting up to 128 MB of RAM into it... It's not much, but it's better than
96.

Cheers,
Kristian T.


> From: "Aidan S. Marcuss" <aidan_s_marcuss@yahoo.com>
> Subject: RAM Disks in YDL 2.3
> 
> Hello all - 
> 
> I've got a question about the kernel that comes with YDL 2.3. I started
> playing with Linux about 6 months ago. I've slowly turned my old iMac into a
> lean, mean server machine. In the process of mucking around, I noticed that
> whenever my machine was starting up a RAM disk was being allocated in memory.
> As my old iMac has a limited 96 MB of RAM, I can't spare to waste a single bit
> (I'm running Apache and the small amount of memory limits the number of
> efficient children it can spawn - but - even with my puny 96 MB, the machine
> is plenty fast to server CGI, PHP, and MySQL based websites).
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Aidan
> 
> 
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