Re: Swap Cache

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Tue, 22 Dec 1998 21:27:44 +0100 (CET)

On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> said:
>
> > I put together a nice machine for $300 this weekend. It is
> > all undestructible second-hand stuff. A good 15" monitor
> > ($100) and $200 spent on a nice&silent server box with a
> > 486/66 and 2 SCSI disks of 540 MB each. I will install the
> > CD-ROM later today (when I get the brackets) and the network
> > will probably laid out this week too...
> >
> > This machine starts the GIMP faster than _any_ of those
> > el-cheapo 300MHz boxes I've ever seen!
>
> I remember a i386/40 "Novell server certified" machine that just ran
> circles around a (then state-of-the-art) i486/100 clone.

The $300 dollar machine I mentioned also runs circles around
most $1000 machines you buy in the shop. (for normal user
activity, that is -- you don't want to play Quake II on it:)

> > We can avoid it. Buy a balanced system.
>
> Very true.

The nice thing is that usually it's even cheaper than
the state-of-the-art-on-one-side-and-garbage-on-the-other
machines you see in the shops...

cheers,

Rik -- the flu hits, the flu hits, the flu hits -- MORE
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