Text 14421, 120 rader
Skriven 2010-06-07 01:29:26 av Benny Pedersen (2:237/53)
  Kommentar till text 14393 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
Ärende: make good money, five dollars a day. made anymore, I might move away
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Hello Maurice!

31 May 2010 11:39, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 MK> Hey Benny!

 >> ssd harddisk on my little eee pc is a waste with winxp

 MK> Which model do you have?

eee pc 2G surf
512M ram, 2048M harddisk, winxp

 MK> We've been having problems getting speed stepping to work on a couple
701's.

why my eec is hot even when its idle ?
 
 MK> They are slightly different 
 MK> models but both have a Celron-M and i915 chipsets.

olso celeron m in my eee
 
 MK> Personally I 
 MK> prefer booting up a ramdisk on them from a usb drive and bypassing the 
 MK> ssd but neither of the owners of them are interested since my ramdisks 
 MK> lack anything remotely user friendly.

ubuntu netbook edition ?

will try it here before reinstall xp again for the first time :/

maybe i just do that i install ubuntu in the ssd, and xp on remote usb
harddisk, most problem will be gone then for me, 2048M is not much to
a monster like xp with 8 browsers and constantly updates :/

 MK> Very frugal but runs fast 
 MK> straight out of ram.  Also the tempfs idea wouldn't be that useable on 
 MK> either given the limited ram.

512M is huge when one dont waste a ram disk on it :)

 >> is the gcc using -pipe ?
 MK> So far only the glibc source.  There is a noticeable seedup there.
 >> well speedups is speedups, no matter how its done :)

 MK> Given the available ram on the Xeon machine (4G), as well as the speed 
 MK> of the ram, then the tmpfs method makes sense if planning to use 
 MK> source from an ssd and want to limit writes to that drive as well as 
 MK> speed up the build procedure.

i can easely follow you here, just not with 4G ram, damm :)

 MK> Given the cost of sata drives these 
 MK> days then I really don't see this method being economical.

olso why asus disabled drive c: swaping on my eee, the ssd could very well
handle the load, but there would be out of diskspace very fast

 MK> Where it would make the greatest impact isn't doable or at least not for 
 MK> building a minimalized development system such as 2thingsInk.

if i ever gets another xp box where i can use it as a remote desktop this would
come handy to use the desktop at home remotely via the eee, but so far i am
not there still, and i belive i choice linux for that anyway

 MK> The glibc, gcc, and kernel builds require too much build space to exploit 
 MK> tmpfs on an eeepc.

2048M should be enough for anyone :)

here i just have 512 :(

 MK> Offhand I am thinking a minimum of 2G of ram would 
 MK> be required to pull this off and an external sata drive plugged into 
 MK> usb is the way to go as things currently stand in eeepc world in this 
 MK> neck of the world.

my own goal for the eee is to have a computer to update software on my
nokia e51, not much other fun i exspect from it, but if it will let me see
how much or not xp can do on so little hardware as is, are also some expirence
in 

 MK> Also a bootable external usb drive is best for 
 MK> straight installs no matter what the targetted drive is including an 
 MK> ssd.

yep i find it cool that it can boot anything external mounted on the eee so
ssd is not the biggest problem to get extended

 MK> Still having kernel issues on the Atom with the recent builds of 
 MK> 2thingsInk and it is closest to emulating an eeepc.  It has 2G of ram 
 MK> and could test a ssd target using tmpfs for build space.

ah nice, so testing on a vm like my eee could be done before burning the usb
stick ? :)

 MK> That board might more resemble more modern eeepc's and the such.  It'll
have to 
 MK> wait a little longer while I work out the kinks.

when i had my sons dell inspiration 9300 turned on last night it could run 4
hours
on batteries, something i still have to see from my eee :(

with is mostly not possible for the hot cpu or internal cooler :(

 MK> Life is good,
 MK> Maurice

well i have to check bios on this fidonet computer, i might be back :=)


 Regards Benny


... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

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