Adding RAM

[Dotan Cohen]

On 13/10/06, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Have you run top in a terminal window and does that give you a clue to
> why the machine is slow? It shows memory and swap usage and will also
> show any processes hogging the cpu.



> Is the slowness accompanied by a lot of disk activity?

The disk light blinks about twice a second when the machine is not
loaded. That seems about on par with other systems that I've seen.

> I believe you need to run the 686 kernel to recognise 1GB of memory. The
> 386, IIRC is limited to about 750MB, although I don't see why that
> should make the system particularly slow.

Can anybody else confirm this? Can I run that kernel on a Duron?

Dotan Cohen

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