On 2/9/07, hkclark@xxxxxxxxx <hkclark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2/8/07, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It should not be a problem as lots of your memory used is buffers and > cache. > > CentOS-3 is going to be supported for a while yet (EOL is scheduled for > Oct 31, 2010), so if it is working perfectly and doing what they want, > they may want to keep it though. > > If they upgrade or don't, the memory should be OK either way . > Hi Johnny, Good info -- thanks. They have a small app they want to add that requires a newer version of Perl than 5.8.0 that comes with CentOS 3. Rather than getting into a non-RPM version of Perl, we were thinking going to CentOS 4 would be easier and cleaner. In your experience, would you say that my "quick & dirty" measurement of CentOS 4 needing 10-25 MB more memory than CentOS 3 (again, for a non-X box with a minimal install) is accurate (at least in approximate
It is more true that the 2.4.20+stuff kernel (RHEL-3) and the 2.6.9+stuff kernel (RHEL-4) allocate buffers differently, and in some ways count free/buffered memory different. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
