Adding RAM

[Tony Arnold]

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 13:41 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 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?

Sorry, I missed that you were running on a 64 bit machine. Ignore my
comments about limitations on memory.

I'm still curious to know what top is telling you about machine
activity.

Regards,
Tony.
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