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crahen
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 Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:31 pm Post subject: Cobalt RaQ2 / Memory Conditions / Perhiprials |
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I've been running for a while now on the 2.6 kernel with moderate success.
However, my system only has a very small amount of memory available (32M, the default was the Qube's shipped with) Most of the time this is OK, but its very limiting, especially if you are trying to emerge newer versions of gcc or anything that will eat a good amount of memory. Several times OpenSSH has gone down on me because the memory was used up (The kernel will select a prcoess to kill when resources are low)
I might just get some more memory for it. But then again I haven't been
using the box for that much because its not that stable since it runs out of RAM and kills things. Its tough to justify the $100 or so for the special SIMM if you aren't going to use it - especially when the box is pretty underpowered compared to putting $100 into a newer machine....
What do you guys use your RaQ2's for?
I was also thinking of sticking a USB card into the PCI slot and getting a couple ports for some perhiprials on there.
Has anyone put anything interesting in thiers?
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crahen
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| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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| I guess I should have made a bigger swap partition or setup a cross compiler on another machine... |
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Redhatter
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Special RAM? I just used standard 72-pin EDO in mine... this stuff pops up on EBay from time to time.
As to peripherals... I plugged an Adaptec AHA-2940AU PCI SCSI card, then hooked a drive cage up to that...turning the box into a nice portable file server.
It's not super fast, but does a respectible ~3MB/sec, which is still faster than most ADSL/Cable internet connections around here (typically 1MB/s tops).
Certainly give it a try though -- I don't know of anyone who has tried a USB card in a Cobalt server, but so long as it doesn't try doing anything clever with the PCI bus, it should work.
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Sanguinary
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| Redhatter wrote: | | Certainly give it a try though -- I don't know of anyone who has tried a USB card in a Cobalt server, but so long as it doesn't try doing anything clever with the PCI bus, it should work. |
I recall NetBSD users reporting success using USB cards in Qubes, so there shouldn't be any overwhelming technical hurdle. |
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Kumba
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| Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Redhatter wrote: | It's not super fast, but does a respectible ~3MB/sec, which is still faster than most ADSL/Cable internet connections around here (typically 1MB/s tops).
Certainly give it a try though -- I don't know of anyone who has tried a USB card in a Cobalt server, but so long as it doesn't try doing anything clever with the PCI bus, it should work. |
The internal IDE running on DMA clocks ~11MB/sec for me, however I doubt the system ever reaches that potential due to the processor limitation. On the USB-side of things, you'll still need to boot off HDA1, unless Peter cooks up some new tricks for his firmware.
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crahen
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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| I thought the ram had to be the 3.3V variety? |
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