Installed the latest Nvidia drivers last night, very slick, but, as someone said, no better than a Debian or RPM package with a couple of extra bells and whistles. I think the main thing is the implicit recognition that GNU/Linux is an important enough user base for them to provide this. OK, the real point of this is that after the install I was reviewing the start-up log and noticed a message saying I had 16 x 4Mb RAM disks. Presumably this was a default kernel option as I haven't knowingly created these. Question is, is this just a capability or is there an actual 64M RAM overhead associated with this? Do I need any RAM disks? Keith ____________ TWICE, adv. Once too often. Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 09:46:42AM +0100, Keith Watson wrote:
OK, the real point of this is that after the install I was reviewing the start-up log and noticed a message saying I had 16 x 4Mb RAM disks. Presumably this was a default kernel option as I haven't knowingly created these.
Question is, is this just a capability or is there an actual 64M RAM overhead associated with this?
Where about is this start-up log? I have never come across this at all since gentoo do all the work for me (they extracted the file from the installer and put it in a nice tarball file). -- (o_ - Craig Butcher //\ - IT Technician / Unix Support MTH/ENV @ UEA V_/_ - http://www.wizball.co.uk
From: Craig On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 09:46:42AM +0100, Keith Watson wrote:
OK, the real point of this is that after the install I was reviewing the start-up log and noticed a message saying I had 16 x 4Mb RAM disks. Presumably this was a default kernel option as I haven't knowingly created these.
Question is, is this just a capability or is there an actual 64M RAM overhead associated with this?
Where about is this start-up log? I have never come across this at all since gentoo do all the work for me (they extracted the file from the installer and put it in a nice tarball file).
Well, in Debian ( :o) it's Ctrl+Alt+F9 to get the console messages, then hit Escape so you can scroll back, but isn't there a copy in /var/log somewhere? Keith ____________ I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Lao-Tzu
type dmesg at a console Tristan Scott Computer Engineer PC-Seller PLC 355 Alysham road, opposite boundary pub Norwich NR3 2RX Tel: 01603 442233 Fax: 01603 404410 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Watson" <Keith.Watson@Kewill.com> To: "'ALUG'" <main@lists.alug.org.uk> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 10:41 AM Subject: RE: [Alug] RAM Disks
From: Craig On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 09:46:42AM +0100, Keith Watson wrote:
OK, the real point of this is that after the install I was reviewing the start-up log and noticed a message saying I had 16 x 4Mb RAM disks. Presumably this was a default kernel option as I haven't knowingly
created
these.
Question is, is this just a capability or is there an actual 64M RAM overhead associated with this?
Where about is this start-up log? I have never come across this at all since gentoo do all the work for me (they extracted the file from the installer and put it in a nice tarball file).
Well, in Debian ( :o) it's Ctrl+Alt+F9 to get the console messages, then hit Escape so you can scroll back, but isn't there a copy in /var/log somewhere?
Keith ____________ I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Lao-Tzu
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so how much ram are you using after booting? kill X server (Ctrl-alt-backspace) and check ram use top or free will give you use of ram. basically, theres the old ram disk (static allocation) and the new type, which expands as you use it. gotta go. Tristan Scott Computer Engineer PC-Seller PLC 355 Alysham road, opposite boundary pub Norwich NR3 2RX Tel: 01603 442233 Fax: 01603 404410 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Watson" <Keith.Watson@Kewill.com> To: "'Alug List'" <main@lists.alug.org.uk> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 3:04 PM Subject: RE: [Alug] RAM Disks
From: Tristan Scott
type dmesg at a console
Dooh!!!
But what about my original question?
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on Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 09:46:42AM +0100, Keith Watson wrote:
OK, the real point of this is that after the install I was reviewing the start-up log and noticed a message saying I had 16 x 4Mb RAM disks. Presumably this was a default kernel option as I haven't knowingly created these. Question is, is this just a capability or is there an actual 64M RAM overhead associated with this?
These are just capabilities.
Do I need any RAM disks?
They are very fast, and their contents easily removed. This makes them good filesystems for /tmp.
On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 10:46:13 +0100 xs@kittenz.org wrote:
They are very fast, and their contents easily removed. This makes them good filesystems for /tmp.
sounds interesting, can you point me in the direction of some material that explains this in more detail? Cheers Keith
(I hope this gets through, I've just installed/configured exim ::grin::) There's a thread on another list I'm on, with regards to the recent google stories on the register, about open source search engines. Has anyone had any experience of any? I notice theres a few about, but none I've heard of. A few people have suggested that a peer to peer search engine might be a good solution (mostly for decentralisation reasons). Does anyone have any thoughts? Good? Bad? Impossible? It's certainly an interesting idea IMO. Might be worth giving it a go to see if it's feasable. BenE
BenE <mail@psychoferret.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
There's a thread on another list I'm on, with regards to the recent google stories on the register, about open source search engines. Has anyone had any experience of any? I notice theres a few about, but none I've heard of.
Can you point me to that thread please? This sounds interesting, but I can't find good material on it. A lot of the p2p search engine suggestions I've seen aren't really p2p at all, but client-server with clients sending back more information than normal. Can it work? I don't know. Are we crossing into things like agent technology and semantic web, or are there simpler ways of doing this that haven't been considered yet? The vlib.org project is a sort of p2p yahoo, but doesn't really seem to get the interest any more. -- MJR http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ IM: slef@jabber.at This is my home web site. This for Jabber Messaging. How's my writing? Let me know via any of my contact details.
On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, MJ Ray wrote:
BenE <mail@psychoferret.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
There's a thread on another list I'm on, with regards to the recent google stories on the register, about open source search engines. Has anyone had any experience of any? I notice theres a few about, but none I've heard of.
Can you point me to that thread please?
afraid not, the archive isn't available due to a major troll incident a while back (do a google on 'ian gomeche' if you want the gory details. He's an ex-norwich resident too). I could post (privately since there are quite a few) the erm...posts if you like, after I ask permission from the writers...
This sounds interesting, but I can't find good material on it. A lot of the p2p search engine suggestions I've seen aren't really p2p at all, but client-server with clients sending back more information than normal.
The thread was more of a 'wouldn't it be cool...' and the political side of it, so it may not help much. BenE
BenE <mail@psychoferret.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
He's an ex-norwich resident too). I could post (privately since there are quite a few) the erm...posts if you like, after I ask permission from the writers...
Please. Even just yours would probably be interesting.
The thread was more of a 'wouldn't it be cool...' and the political side of it, so it may not help much.
Maybe, maybe not. One idea that just fired off in my mind was the old habit of uploading bookmark files to the web. If we all did that and kept some sort of index of bookmarks of people that we know, then combine them somehow, we get a defacto "personal web directory". Add some sort of spidering and indexing, and you get a reasonable "personal web search" which is a good starting point. There's been some work on personal gophers done. I wonder how they fit into this. Probably wildly OT for this list, though. Ho hum. MJR
on Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 08:13:13PM +0100, Keith Watson wrote:
On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 10:46:13 +0100 xs@kittenz.org wrote:
They are very fast, and their contents easily removed. This makes them good filesystems for /tmp.
sounds interesting, can you point me in the direction of some material that explains this in more detail?
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/November1999/article124.html is similar to how I remember doing it with 2.2.x. It may have changed since then. /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ramdisk.txt documents some of it.
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 xs@kittenz.org wrote:
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/November1999/article124.html is similar to how I remember doing it with 2.2.x. It may have changed since then. /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ramdisk.txt documents some of it.
I'm currently using tmpfs (formerly shmfs???) on 2.4.18
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