That's a nice Wiki, thanks for the link. It's main role is more desktop oriented, thus why it runs XP. I've watched the Activity Monitor while the virus scanner ran and it tended to eat memory up to about 300MB running just that. When I launched an app it went to 380MB+. For their uses (accounting, word processing) the main problem is the lag while parts are swapped in and out during a scan and trying to launch apps and open files. I think going to 512MB is the most cost effective way to reduce the lag. I've set the active scan to happen at night, but there's still the resident scanner going at all times. It is a broadband connected XP machine, after all...
Jon.
On 12/18/06, Richard Piper rmpiper@everestkc.net wrote:
I found an excellent reference on the PowerEdge 400SC http://www.wikifaq.com/Dell_PowerEdge_400SC_FAQs#Will_non-ECC_RAM_work.3F
If you are having swapping issues, you probably want to go to at least 1 GB of matching RAM. For a business, it's worth every penny to maximize the throughput on the server.
Rick
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 15:19 -0600, Jon Pruente wrote:
- I'm the "in family" computer tech for my father-in-law's business.
They are needing to upgrade the RAM in a Dell PowerEdge 400SC. For that I'm looking for a matched pair of DDR400 PC3200 128MB DIMMs. The system already has a pair of 128s in two slots, and I'm looking to fill the remaining slots cheaply and bring it up to 512MB RAM. Running XP SP2 and a virus scanner causes so much VM swapping that they can't get any work done when it runs, even on it's HT P4.
- For myself I'm in need of a Socket 478 motherboard, as I'm in the
process of building up my first P4 level Linux workstation. I've got two chips that need homes, a 1.8GHz Celeron and a 2.8GHz HT P4. I'd prefer to get the P4 in a system, but it seems that 800FSB boards are not as common as 533FSBs. If someone has something cheap I'd take it if it only works with the Celeron, but if someone has an 800FSB capable board for cheap I'd be rather happy. _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug