Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.delphi.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!csugrad.cs.vt.edu!csugrad.cs.vt.edu!not-for-mail From: ceharris@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Carl Harris) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Extremely low memory system Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 19 Sep 1995 20:11:52 -0400 Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Lines: 24 Message-ID: <43nm88$l9@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> References: <43a1u6$572@tuba.cit.cornell.edu> <MICHAELV.95Sep17014327@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <EJE.95Sep18092005@eje.xyplex.com> <MICHAELV.95Sep18221451@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <43nk62$d8@news.iastate.edu> Reply-To: ceharris@vt.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: csugrad.cs.vt.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:61032 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:6279 Rick Hawkins (rhawkins@iastate.edu) wrote: : Of the alphas, 3 are 64M models, which, under our typical usage, have : enough memory to support 2-3 users before paging becomes an issue. : These xterms would be used as the 2d/3d user for these machines (or the : rest when the public lab is closed; grad student room is 24 hr). This is really off-topic for this group, but what the hell... Sheesh. Your "typical" usage must be pretty blistering. There are frequently 10 or more users on the 64MB Alpha 3000/600 systems in our labs, and swapping really doesn't become a problem until 25 or more are on compiling PHIGS applications or some such. Disk I/O is the biggest hangup for us. Heck, we have a 96 MB 3000/600 that averages 50 users logged in. Granted, it uses a RAID to ease the disk I/O constraints, but it isn't sitting there running email apps and idle logins either -- it runs a full-feed news server, and a major web server. You aren't trying to run with aggressive swapping, are you? -- Carl Harris EXECUTIVE Scapegoat (and Systems Engineer) Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech ceharris@cs.vt.edu