On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 01:29:36AM -0400, Jason Boxman wrote: > I have a 486 firewall myself. My connectivity on other machines more or less > stops when I do things like run dpkg or the gShield firewall script > (iptables) loads on it. Is this normal, or is it just my particular 486 33?
dpkg and friends aren't known to be particularly kind to lower end processors (especially machines with little RAM). My 486 is a pita to upgrade (and it's a dx2/66 (remember when those were _fast_?)) RAM helps ... I saw a performance jump when I went from 8 MB to 16 MB, and again when I went to 32 MB. it's getting harder to find SIMMs laying around though. > (Oh, and I use kernel-package on the faster machine to compile kernels for > the 486 -- Just so this is somewhat on topic.) On topic? This is debian-user! <duck> Cheers, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton
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