[K12OSN] Dell 4600 w/8 Gigs Memory - where is it?

Paul Satherley pauls at tclcommunications.co.nz
Fri Mar 10 10:03:47 UTC 2006


Does not compute..om.  DELL 4600 is a 2.8 Ghz P4 desktop machine with 
max memory of 2g bytes???
A pig in a Poke


Alan A Hodson wrote:
> Greetings
>
> This may sound strange but in one of the labs we have in El Paso ISD 
> (TX) we have a Dell 4600 with 8 Gigs of ram, and yet the system 
> monitor tells me that the CPU is working nearly at 100% capacity 
> constantly... My question is, how can I configure this monster so that 
> the load is shared by the gargantuan amount of memory? It seems like 
> if more than 30 users log in, the system starts crawling... I've tried 
> the SMP kernel also, and it doesn't seem to help... Somehow I am not 
> making proper use of the available memory - any way of pre-loading 
> some applications (say openoffice and firefox) so that they stay in 
> ram and are available right away for all students?
>
> Any suggestions/clarifications are much appreciated
>
> Alan Hodson
> aahodson at episd dot org
> http://links.epid.org
> -=o=-
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