The limit of less is more, end of series...
- I know there are a handful of low powered PC fans out there, not the
rotational sort, so FYI I tried this a while back and had trouble
installing Fedora 8 on my VIA EPIA 500 MoB. However I tried again and it
was only a small issue with the current kernel at the time (I think) and
should have reported a more thorough bug on Fedora-test but was too busy
at the time.
It's fixed and I have cut down services, used XFCE and the stock SeaMonkey
to browse and read email and all is well. Not fast enough for iPlayer or
DVD's but does the job. Fine for browsing and CLI work but struggles with
some Perl modules, notably Perl(Net::SSH::Perl) - so I use a faster CPU
somewhere else.
]#cat /proc/cpuinfo
...
model name : VIA Samuel 2
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 533.363
cache size : 64 KB
...
]#free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 494 486 7 0 39 128
-/+ buffers/cache: 318 175
Swap: 996 180 815
]#hdparm -t /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 70 MB in 3.03 seconds = 23.10 MB/sec
Service configuration:
]# chkconfig --list|grep 5:on
acpid 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
avahi-daemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
crond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
haldaemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
irqbalance 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
messagebus 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
network 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
restorecond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
rsyslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
setroubleshoot 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
sshd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
udev-post 0:off 1:on 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
(Sorry Vic;)
-- Damian
