DSL on Dual P2-450 with 385MB?
Forum: HD Install
Topic: DSL on Dual P2-450 with 385MB?
started by: Robocoastie
Posted by Robocoastie on Oct. 05 2004,21:44
Will DSL run well on a Dual P2-450 rig with 385MB RAM? I'd like to turn it into a 'net, bookkeeping and folding@home rig.thanks,
Rob
Posted by ke4nt1 on Oct. 05 2004,21:54
It would run with 1/10th of that..DSL loves multi-processor boards..
and 385MB ram will allow you to load the entire OS into ram
with room to spare...
Let us know what you think..
73
ke4nt
Posted by Robocoastie on Oct. 05 2004,22:34
thanks! I'll let yall know how it goes.
Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Oct. 05 2004,23:06
and enjoy the 2 tuxes to look at while it boots.1 for each proc.
Welcome to the Revolution.
-J.P.
SaidinUnleashed
Posted by ke4nt1 on Oct. 05 2004,23:11
I would be nice to have an app or two similar to 3dMark or Passmark for overall benchmarking of systems
running DSL ..
Just to see how well it runs on different boxes using
different setups, hdparms, ram timing/latencies, etc..
It would also be informative to see how DSL
compares to other distros on the same box ..
73
ke4nt
Posted by Rapidweather on Oct. 05 2004,23:57
DSL 0.8.2 runs on my Dual Pentium Pro very well, and the 1024 KB total level two cache gives this machine an edge. I'd like to get one of those PII boxes and see what THAT can do!---
Seriously, we do want to know if it boots, and if it does not, how far it got, messages, etc.
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I hate to throw a fly in the ointment, but, yes, I'm the one with three out of four boxes that 0.8.2 won't boot on. Up to DSL 8x, this question was almost never asked or considered, one could be 100% sure that it would run, if you had a decent amount of ram. My smallest box is a 200 MMX with 128 MB of ram, and DSL 0.6.2 ran perfectly.
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I'm betting that it will run on your box, however. (Don't ask me how I would know that).
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Posted by Robocoastie on Oct. 06 2004,06:47
found this rig on ebay for less than a $100, seller has a few yet I think listed. Even has a Matrox video card with 4 heads on it and I'm a sucker for aquireing tinker boxes should be here some time this week.
Posted by caulktel on Oct. 08 2004,19:53
Wow,I would love to have a multi proc board, if for no other reason but to see two Tux's on boot up. Really. No I mean it.
Joel
Posted by AwPhuch on Oct. 08 2004,20:45
I have 12 dual processor pentium classic (socket 5) mobos...I think I might have to see if it will live on one of those mugs!!
Brian
AwPhuch
Posted by caulktel on Oct. 09 2004,04:29
Hey Brian,Want to sell one?
Joel
Posted by Robocoastie on Oct. 10 2004,05:05
Got the box Friday afternoon. The video card turned out to be useless because Matrox made them for some kind of touch screens so they have a funky connector I've never seen before for video /shrug no biggie though. So I just pulled out a Xabre (newer sis3d card) agp from my computer parts closet and modified it and the case to fit with my trusty tin snips 
. Then stuck in DSL and booted her up - 2 tuxes popped up (very cool btw) and DSL is indeed fast with it. HDD install failed though, perhaps I had scsi calls set up wrong, but no matter because I decided to make it a print server as well as 2nd computer and setting up SAMBA manually was driving me mad.Undeterred I stuck Yoper on it and wow it was equally fast even using KDE 3.3 they really did some very cool work with that distro to make it so snappy. Alas samba drove me just as crazy, so tried my trusty Xandros 2.5 Deluxe, file sharing worked much easier due to XandrosFM automating that but print sharing was an entirely other matter.
So... with little choice I had to stick my spare WinXP Pro on it. This isn't *nix's fault at all I just need to get an up to date samba book and learn it like I did XFree86 and the basics of Linux. In the mean time I had to have a solution.
In WinXP-Pro using overclockers.com team's one click script Folding@Home is running CPU1 at 50%cpu load with an estimated time to be done with its work unit in 9 days 10 hours and 40 minutes. CPU2 at 100% cpu load is estimated at 4-13-36 at its current work load. Not snappy by any means but might as well put it to work.
Speaking of hardware/performance like this how well do via's itx/cpu solutions that the DSL site sells peform for distributed apps? I read recently that via will be shipping a dual processor board/cpu combo in November, any plans on having those available to purchase? I may just build a DSL with it.
Posted by alloydog on Oct. 11 2004,05:41
| Quote (AwPhuch @ Oct. 08 2004,16:45) |
| I have 12 dual processor pentium classic (socket 5) mobos... I think I might have to see if it will live on one of those mugs!! Brian AwPhuch |
24 processor cluster... Hmmmmm