Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:57:52 -0500 From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: =?utf-8?Q?Miguel_Gon=C3=A7alves?= <miguelg@fe.up.pt>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Suggestions for FreeBSD workstation Message-ID: <oprmn7qqxa0cf2rk@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0303270111110.3405-100000@gnomo.fe.up.pt> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0303270111110.3405-100000@gnomo.fe.up.pt>
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 01:23:11 +0000 (WET), Miguel Gonçalves <miguelg@fe.up.pt> wrote: > > Hello FreeBSDers! > > I am about to build a new box to keep at home to do some > digital photo editing, write some documents with LaTeX and > listen to some music (MP3, Ogg Vorbis and Audio CDs). > > I selected this hardware and I was hoping to get some > feedback from you on items that might have problems with > FreeBSD 4.7 and the new 4.8. > > Anyway here it is: > > - ASUS A7S333 motherboard Using A7V333 happily. (Was 4-STABLE, now 5-CURRENT.) Of course VIA and SiS are different chipsets, but AFAIK there should be no problem with that level of hardware. > - AMD XP 2000+ Using XP 1800+ happily. > - Titan D5TB-TC Socket A/FCPGA > - 3 x DDR 512 MB PC333 Using 2 x 256 MB PC2100 happily. That's a bit older than what you've got, so I can't be certain, but then again I haven't seen any complaints about PC333. > - Western Digital 80GB 80/72/100 800JB 8MB Cache > - CDRW LG 8481B 48x24x48x IDE > - Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 NIC > - Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop > - 19" Sony CPD-E450 > - XFX Riva TNT 32MB AGP > - Sound Blaster Live 4.1 Creative OEM > > My doubts regarding this configuration are related > to the Sound Blaster Live support. > > BTW, with 1.5 GB of RAM can I mount the /usr/src > and /usr/obj in a MFS to speed up 'world' compilation? Certainly. However, after building the world a few jillion times, I can tell you using a MFS made absolutely no difference on my machine (all partitions on same slice of a RAID0). Mounting the relevant stuff "noatime" seemed to speed things up a bit. Jud > Please reply to me as I am not on the list due to > incoming mailbox limits. > > Best regards, > Miguel Goncalves > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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