From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 19 7:27:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com (mailout01.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8545A37B479 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 07:27:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fmrl01.sul.t-online.de by mailout01.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 13mGf6-0005oi-00; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:27:16 +0200 Received: from icg-pc202.hofheim.icg-online.de (06192901197-0001@[217.1.128.93]) by fmrl01.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 13mGez-0A4D1EC; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:27:09 +0200 Received: (from manfred@localhost) by icg-pc202.hofheim.icg-online.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA25596; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:31:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from usselmann.m) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:31:23 +0200 From: Manfred Usselmann To: Christopher Rued Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows takes up less memory than Unix Was: (no subject) Message-ID: <20001019163123.A25482@icg-pc202.hofheim.icg-online.de> References: <39EE0D68.E0102B92@wmptl.com> <200010182142.XAA24345@icg-pc202.hofheim.icg-online.de> <14830.7083.556001.759808@chris.xsb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <14830.7083.556001.759808@chris.xsb.com>; from c.rued@xsb.com on Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 05:52:43PM -0400 Organization: ICG Informationstechnologie Consulting GmbH X-Sender: 06192901197-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 05:52:43PM -0400, Christopher Rued wrote: > Manfred Usselmann writes: > > On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:51:52 -0400, Nathan Vidican wrote: > > > > >James A Wilde wrote: > > >> > > >> My limited experience indicates that Unix is much more damanding of the > > >> hardware than, say, Windows. > > >> > > >> You may have 192 Mb ram, but if 64 Mb of it is shaky from the Unix point of > > >> view you can get signal 11 and still be able to run Windows with just the > > >> occasional GPF, which makes you curse and reboot. Try taking out your RAM > > >> chips one at a time and see how you get on. If you find that install > > >> continues when, say, chip 2 is removed, try and sell that one to a Windows > > >> user and get yourself a new one. > > >> > > >> If I'm on the wrong track, hopefully someone will come in on this thread and > > >> correct me. > > >> > > >> mvh/regards > > >> > > >> James > > >> > > >> > -----Original Message----- > > >> > From: Mc Claude [mailto:privat-mc@gmx.de] > > >> > Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 12:43 > > >> > To: james.wilde@telia.com > > >> > Subject: > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > Hello! > > >> > > > >> > Yes it isn't Fault 11, it is Signal 11! But I think I can full fill all > > >> > hardware requirements! > > >> > 192 MB RAM, enough space on HD! I've downloaded the FreeBSD from server as > > >> > ISO then I burned it on a CD but this CD can't be loaded after BIOS > > >> > sequence! So I've made boot disks! And then I've did all which > > >> > you have read > > >> > in the last e-mail! So I hope you help me! > > >> > > > >> > CU! > > >> > > > >> > > >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > >Your experience must be VERY limited then, because I've got 386/486 > > >machines running with 4-8megs of ram just fine (usually at under 10% of > > >capacity at that!), like to see that from any winblows box. > > > > I think you misunderstood James. I believe he wanted to say that > > Windows is more likely to accept / tolerate bad RAM chips. > > Are we to beleive that this is a *good* thing? IMO No. > I'd rather have the OS let me know something was wrong immediately > rather than have it run happily along without letting me know that > anything is wrong (except for the GPF, BSOD, and other apparently > random crashes). I agree. Manfred -- Manfred Usselmann usselmann.m@icg-online.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message