Here is what printed out with dmesg. Please note, although my current system has only 256m ram, it usually has 512 and really runs no different. I had to pull one chip out to put in another system temporarily. thanks Rodolfo.
Linux version 2.4.18-17.8.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2 2 0020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)) #1 Tue Oct 8 13:51:08 EDT 2002 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000fff0000 - 000000000fff3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000000fff3000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 255MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 65520 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 61424 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-17. 8.0 hdd=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/ ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi Initializing CPU#0 Detected 1514.882 MHz processor. Speakup v-1.00 CVS: Tue Jun 11 14:22:53 EDT 2002 : initialized Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 3004.59 BogoMIPS Memory: 253064k/262080k available (1313k kernel code, 6584k reserved, 989k data, 172k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) ramfs: mounted with options: <defaults> ramfs: max_pages=31888 max_file_pages=0 max_inodes=0 max_dentries=31888 Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 0K, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 256K CPU: After vendor init, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.50GHz stepping 02 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfac50, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Using IRQ router default [1039/0645] at 00:00.0 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found speakup: initialized device: /dev/synth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 25) Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16) Starting kswapd VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SER IAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e block: 480 slots per queue, batch=120 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 15 SIS5513: chipset revision 208 SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later SiS645 ATA 133 controller ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: WDC WD800JB-00CRA1, ATA DISK drive hdb: ST340016A, ATA DISK drive hdc: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616F, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: LITE-ON LTR-48126S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63, UDMA(100) hdb: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63, UDMA(100) ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 > hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 126k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Journalled Block Device driver loaded kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal Adding Swap: 2249092k swap-space (priority -1) kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,66), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: LITE-ON Model: LTR-48126S Rev: 2S0A Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.11 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> microcode: CPU0 no microcode found! (sig=f12, pflags=4) parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: faking semi-colon parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 710C ohci1394: pci_module_init failed ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.25 divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xd0999000, 00:e0:4c:e5:67:c5, IRQ 11 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: faking semi-colon parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 710C lp0: using parport0 (polling). lp0: console ready mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice cmpci: version $Revision: 5.64 $ time 13:58:45 Oct 8 2002 cmpci: found CM8738 adapter at io 0xe400 irq 5 cmpci: chip version = 055 cmpci: Enable SPDIF loop On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 22:03, Rodolfo Canet-Castelló wrote: > El vie, 15-11-2002 a las 09:32, Greg escribió: > > Also, one more note on speed. Multitasking programs is a no go with RH > > it seems at the moment. If I try to load two programs at the same time, > > it slows down so much it is not funny. An example might be loading > > browser/email prgrams at the same time. Or, another, if I am doing a > > file search on the hard drives, and I try to load another program, the > > other program will take 50+ times longer to do anything. > > The behaviour of your system isn't normal at all. Why don't you (as > root) run dmesg and post the print out for the experts to have a > look...? > > Rodolfo > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list