Re: [edlug] RAM failure

[William Hamilton <horus@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Well, I found a couple of old sticks of PC-100 RAM in the bottom of the 
bits box and once I put them in the system it was FAR happier.

I don't know what was wrong with the other RAM but *something* was 
screwey with it :)

I know an Athlon isn't going to be the best for economy but it's all I 
have at the moment until I can source some sort of older Pentium or the 
likes.

Billy

Dick Middleton wrote:
> William Hamilton wrote:
>
> > Having secured a /29 from plusnet, I finally decided to do something 
> > with the hardware under my bed and build myself a nice web/dns server 
> > and try out debian etch in the process.
>
> I wouldn't use Debian for this.  Have a look at Devil-Linux 
> (http://www.devil-linux.org).  It's a ram based system designed for 
> public facing servers with security in mind.
>
> Also be aware that if you're running a 24/7 server every watt it runs 
> at will cost you about a pound per year in electricity.   An Athlon is 
> probably not the best choice for economy.
>
> > Being an Athlon 1GHz with 512MB of RAM, I was a bit confused when the 
> > debian installed claimed to be low on memory but I figured it may 
> > just have been a bug but apparently not - dmesg confirms that there 
> > is in fact no high memory beyond what is in the swap file.
>
> Use memtest86 to check your memory.  I'm surprised linux will run at 
> all in 640K!
>
> Dick
>
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