PB 3400C Woes

[Dwayne C Ayers]

Tnx Bill,

I will give all your suggestions a try soon and get back with you.

Dwayne


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Longman, Bill" <longman@sharplabs.com>
To: <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 4:58 PM
Subject: RE: RE : PB 3400C Woes


> > On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 11:57  AM, Longman, Bill wrote:
> > > [...] you can go the the Opt-F2 window and use the swap space.
> > >
> > > $ swapon /dev/hda9
> > >
> > > ought to do the trick. That gave me an extra 64MB for the
> > poor little
> > > gizmo to use and abuse.
> >
> > I am curious -- what is meant by this trick? Does it somehow reassign
> > your swap partition? If so, what would be the advantages?
>
> Linux, like other *nixes, uses virtual memory from the hard disk space.
When
> your system is configured, it sees the swap space available in the
> /etc/fstab file. It then mounts that space as swap so unused bits of
> programs can hang out on disk instead of running from RAM. Anyway, that's
> the jist of the page-file scenario. The point is, that physical RAM +
> virtual HD space = total memory available to the kernel.
>
> With our 48MB PB3400's, we're scraping the bottom of the usability barrel.
> By adding the extra swap space at the beginning of the install (assuming
> it's already formatted as swap space), you can use that partition for its
> intended purpose - desperately needed system memory. Just firing up X on
my
> PB takes up a big chunk of RAM, even with a tiny window manager like
> WindowMaker. I have to assume YDL's X install has some similar memory
> footprint and with all the work it does figuring out package dependencies,
> it might be running out of room for "'cipherin'".
>
> Can't you just hear Jethro Bodine: "Naught plus naught..."
>
> Bill
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