Re: Multia 5.2 Out of Memory

[Mark Conway Wirt <mark intrepid net>]

On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 06:54:50PM -0500, Mark Conway Wirt wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 12:37:35PM -0500, Dave Beck wrote: 
> 
> > I have 64mb in all my udb boxen.  They all netboot and use nfs root
> > filesystems.  I routinely compile kernels and other software while
> > running X.  Occasionally they hit swap during such a session, but
> > for the most part, they are swap free and perform rather well for
> > being completely diskless.

And speaking of swap: When my laptop swaps (IDE), the machine becomes
unusable.  When the UDB swaps, it just slows things down a bit.

Is SCSI *that* much better, or does one expect the architecture of the UBD
to be superior to a similar-vintage Pentium box?

--Mark