[Cialug] load average+upgrade

[David Champion]

Not a speed-demon by any means, but I do still have this machine
available, free or best offer:

- Dell Optiplex GX-110 mid-tower, 533mhz Celeron, CDROM, HD (missing
floppy), has a smallish IDE HD, and a smallish amount of RAM.

-dc


James Shoemaker wrote:
>> Do you have a recent kenel loaded?  There were some nice enhancements added
>> to recent(ish) 2.6 kernels for "realtime" to make them more responsive to
>> realtime-like stuff - video, audio etc.  Maybe you can switch to one?
> 
>   Currently 2.6.18.  That helped, but then I added another capture card
> and 2 more cameras.
> 
>> Can you unload or remove anything not being used?  Disable any hardware not
>> in use through the BIOS.  If you do an 'lspci' and 'cat /proc/interrupts'
>> are any of your interrupts being shared?  Try to get the capture card on
>> it's own interrupt.
> 
>   All the box does is the video work, as for shared interrupts it is
> unavoidable, there are 3 capture cards serving 4 cameras (probably soon
> to be 6).
> 
>> How far behind is the video?  Can you renice the process?  Can you shrink
>> the resolution?
> 
>   How slow/far behind depends on how many cameras are being viewed at a
> time.  Resolution currently at useful limit (320x240).  I think I will
> just try the PII-350 and see.  The real solution will likely be to get
> my spare AMD dual up as my server and put them in there, but that
> involves $$ again (registered ecc DDR memory).
> 
> James
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