Re: Is my old RedHat computer doomed?

On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:05:45 +0100, Will Kemp wrote:

Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:54:38 +0100, Will Kemp wrote:

If you do 'lsmod | grep thinkpad' is the thinkpad_acpi module inserted?

Yes, it is.

More RAM maybe? It does take quite a long time. There's a lot of disk
I/O to be done. Particularly if there are pages swapped out on the swap
partition.

I have 1GB, which should be enough for what this thing is running. Top
shows 564 Kb of RAM in use. Besides, as somebody whose first proper multi-
user, multitasking mainframe only had between 96 and 128 KB of RAM (it
was a 32Kword 1902S running George 3 Mk 6 and running something like 4-6
MOP users and a couple of background jobs) I still think the amount of
memory this thing has is obscene.

BTW, what's the difference between 'hibernate' and 'suspend'?

"Suspend" suspends to RAM - i.e., it leaves the contents of RAM as they
are, pretty much, and does an orderly shutdown.

"Hibernate" suspends to disk - i.e., it writes the contents of the RAM
to the swap partition and then shuts down.

OK, thanks - looks like my old Thinkpad 560Z and FC1 only had suspend
capability, which explains why it goes to sleep much faster.

Hibernate won't always work - if the total memory used (in RAM and in
swap) are more than the size of the swap partition (after the hibernate
routine's cleared out unnecessary junk), it will just come back up
again.

Shouldn't be a problem then. I'm old school enough to make swap space
twice the size of RAM.

It only works at boot time. It wouldn't make any difference what else
was on the disk, if it's not built into Linux, it won't work.

Of course. I was just wondering if any part of it (e.g. online help) was
on the recovery partition rather than being in ROM with the rest of it.

For more information about Linux on the Thinkpad, check out
http://thinkwiki.org

Bookmarked. Thanks.

Oh, and, by the way... You did install the x86_64 version of Fedora,
didn't you? If you didn't, scrap the existing install and install that.
It's lots faster.

No - bog standard 32 bit. Two reasons: I'm intending to use the same
download to upgrade my NetVista over the next week or two and I don't do
anything that requires an address space of that size. In any case, this
is plenty fast enough for me as it stands.


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