Re: Debian 1.1

[turnbull@example.com (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

>>>>> "Craig" == C Oda <craig@example.com> writes:

    Craig> I got Debian installed.  However, it is flaking out
    Craig> whenever I try to access the ethernet interface.

Try building a new kernel.  If that doesn't work, try using Slackware
or BOGUS binaries for the net stuff.  Or rebuild them.

    Craig> Incidently, I found Java Development Kit 1.1 for Linux on
    Craig> the KDD ftp site in Japan.  I've installed it with a new
    Craig> Apache server on my Linux box for fun and excitement.

Why Apache?  What's it got that recent NCSA and/or CERN HTTPd's don't?

    Craig> It has PCI and I am going to buy PCI SCSI for it.  Any
    Craig> recommendations?

4MB of onboard cache for the SCSI host ;-).

    Craig> Is there any trick that I can do to allocate system DRAM to
    Craig> processor cache (dream on huh?) or any way to make better
    Craig> use of my RAM.

Why "processor cache"?  Processor cache is *faster* memory.  That's
why it's expensive.  Allocating system DRAM to the processor's cache
just adds an extra memmove to the pipeline; it can't speed up access.

Just use it as RAM :-); I regularly am swapping with 32 MB :-P  I
append my current "top" and "ps ax" figures: there's not that much
running, I don't have any of my other users logged in, I'm not
rebuilding the kernel, etc etc.  Now I could recover about 5MB
instantaneously by flushing Netscrap's RAM cache, I think, and there's
something screwy going on with the crond, maybe it's leaking memory
too.  Cannaserver uses a fair amount.  But mostly, "X expands to fill
up the available RAM, and then some."  That's why we use "X" as a
variable, because it varies!

    Craig> Basically, I'm getting to the stage that I want this sucker
    Craig> to fly.

Add wings.  ;-)  The best wings are BBQed at "Buffalo Wild Wings and
Weck", 1864 N. High St., Columbus, OH, 43201.  I forget the phone
number (try Dial-104 :-), but they deliver, at least in the Ohio State
campus area.  ;-)

-- 
                           Stephen John Turnbull
University of Tsukuba                                        Yaseppochi-Gumi
Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences  http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/
Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba, 305 JAPAN                 turnbull@example.com

-- Appendix ------------------------------------------------------------
turnbull:~$ top
Mem:  31100K av, 30584K used,   516K free,  8516K shrd,  1728K buff
Swap: 33692K av,  7216K used, 26476K free       Cached:  9016K
[snip]

turnbull:~$ ps xa
  PID TTY STAT  TIME COMMAND
    1 con 1W   21:59 init
    2 s00 1     0:00 (kflushd) S 1
    3 s00 1     0:00 (kswapd) S 1
   46 psf 4   206:31 /usr/sbin/crond -l10
   66 psf 6 N   0:19 /usr/sbin/syslogd
   68 psf 6     0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd
   70 psf 7 N   1:02 /usr/sbin/inetd
   77 psf 7     3:18 /WWW/httpd -f /WWW/conf/httpd.conf
   91 psf 9     0:00 (agetty) S 1
 1978 psf 1 N   0:00 (lpd) S 1
 3943 s39 3 N   0:00 (agetty) S 1
 4145 psf 4     1:40 X :0
 4225 v47 4 N   0:00 color_xterm -sb -sl 500 -j -ls -fn 7x14 -cr blue
   87 psf 8 N   0:00 /usr/local/canna/bin/cannaserver
 1417 v47 1     7:14 (bash) S 1
 4143 v47 4     0:00 (startx) S 1417
 4144 v47 4     0:00 (xinit) S 4143
 4147 v47 4     0:00 (sh) S 4144
 4150 v47 4 N   0:00 xman
 4151 v47 4 <   0:00 oclock -geometry -5+95 -bd cyan -fg cyan
 4152 v47 4 <   0:00 xbiff -geometry 100x50-5+235 -name me
 4153 v47 4 <   0:00 xbiff -geometry 100x50-5+320 -volume 15 -name w3pro -file /
 4154 v47 4 <   0:00 xbiff -geometry 100x50-5+405 -volume 15 -name comp -file /h
 4155 v47 4 <   0:00 xbiff -geometry 100x50-5+490 -volume 15 -name hw -file /hom
 4156 v47 4 <   0:01 mule -name Mule -i -iconic -font 7x14
 4157 v47 4 N   0:41 fvwm
 4190 v47 4 <   1:36 netscape
 4226 pq1 4     0:00 -bash
 7633 pq1 7     0:00 ps xa