Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Math-emu kills the kernel on Athlon64 X2 | From | Krzysztof Halasa <> | Date | Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:31:16 +0200 |
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Sergio Monteiro Basto <sergio@sergiomb.no-ip.org> writes:
> Btw I try install a kernel 2.4 in my DX2 and works but very very slow . > I think in this type of computer should be install a kernel 2.2 .
I think it's a RAM problem. Most 386DX and early 486 boards allowed 32 MB (using 4 MB modules), Linux 2.6 should run fine on such a beast (386SX was limited to 16 MB address space). Later 486 boards using DIMMs, I think, supported 64 MB (with caching).
Of course a "6 bogomips" 386 CPU isn't a speed daemon but in early 1990s it wasn't any faster and people were using them commonly (and, I think, comfortably). IMHO for basic "SOHO Internet server" (mail and such) it could be fast enough running Linux 2.6. -- Krzysztof Halasa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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