This box, although not very current is still a screamer. One of the things that has impressed me tremendously about Linux is how much more I can get out of my hardware than with certain (ahem!) OSes. This box was a slug when I tried to install the latest and greatest "Professional" version of another OS. The boot took about 15 minutes and there was little I could do to improve it's performance. But running under RH9, this thing boots in about 2 minutes (a few HD controller cards that load BIOS at the beginning and the NVIDIA drivers slow down the launching of X Window System). It also does A LOT. Here's the rundown of what it does at home (it's a headless box BTW):
1. Internal DNS
2. DHCP
3. SAMBA
4. NFS
5. GNOME Desktop Application Server (via VNC and ESD for remote sound on the "thin clients")
6. OpenOffice 2.0 Beta
7. Firefox 1.6
8. Thunderbird 1.6
9. All the usual GNOME type things (cdrecording, ripping music, file management, etc...)
10. Apache with PHP, SSL and WebDAV for my "calendar server" (Sunbird client)
11. Nightly backups from /mnt/data to /mnt/backup (500 Gigs capacity on each)
12. Asterisk PBX (for private lines via OpenVPN between friends and family)
13. All the usual DEVEL tools
14. Multimedia playback with XMMS, Xine and MPlayer
15. Music streaming to work over OpenVPN with icecast and ices
16. P2P for grabbing ISOs of various Linux distros or legit free media downloads
17. And more...
Interestingly enough it seems that I can keep throwing stuff at this box and it balances resources nicely. I've never been in a state where the system locks up and becomes unusable unless something is wrong (had a memory leak with the transparent feature of GNOME term. Feh. I prefer xterm myself) I love this box. (Tyan MOBO from 1997)
Last edited by deckard; 09-07-2005 at 11:06 AM..
Reason: Forgot the CODE tags
Hi,
I wanted to understand what exactly /proc/cpuinfo shows?
We have a machine with following specification...
(2x) Intel Xeon 6-core processors
So, ideally it shouls have 12processors, but the output on /proc/cpuinfo shows 24 processors.
Can someone please explain how this is... (3 Replies)
If you are adding the kernel module without any module parameter passing, it should print out following information to info1 file so that user can make read access to info1 file (via, for example, cat /proc/info1):
• Processor type
• Kernel version
• Total number of the processes currently... (1 Reply)
So, I'm looking over /proc/cpuinfo and have a question... I've read that "siblings" refers to hyperthreading, but that seems odd considering the contents of cpuinfo. Here's a part:
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5410 @ 2.33GHz
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am trying to calculate the CPU Usage by getting the difference between the idle time reported by /proc/stat at 2 different intervals. Now the 4th entry in the first line of /proc/stat will give me the 'idle time'. But I also came across /proc/uptime that gives me 2 entries : 1st one as the... (0 Replies)
Perhaps this is a very dummy question but sorry I don't know other place to do it. We just buy a new cluster of Xeon machines but there is something I don't understand and perhaps someone can help me.
The more /proc/cpuinfo produces the following output (just part of it).
processor : 0... (1 Reply)
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hi all !
Please help me
When I select data from oracle with proc * C prog.
I count the number of rows
For example the total rows is 1000000
but the number of result return is a limit number 5000 for ex
So How can I know this limit (5 Replies)
Hi,
What are the various way's to fix /proc folder in redhat linux 7.2 and how to verify /proc folder is proper or croupted?
Thank in advance
Bache Gowda (7 Replies)
I did a search on this, but didn't find exactly the answer I'm looking for. What exactly is the proc directory for? Showing processes spawned by users? I ask because I have some very large files in that directory by multiple users and its affecting my disk usage. Can you limit how many... (2 Replies)
hi,
we all know /proc is about the information of active process,
I have just read an artical which said you can use /proc/cpuinfo,
/proc/net./proc/meminfo etc. to know about some hardware
information .But I want to know how to use with command line? (1 Reply)