On 24/10/11 at 15:24 +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > Also, wouldn't it be possible to just add more RAM to samosa ? It only > > has 6 GB, and RAM isn't that expensive nowadays. With <$1000, we could > > probably get a significant performance increase. > > I don't think it'd be easy, no. Many DDs seem to not understand that > most machines debian has are several years old by now. 6 gigs on a i386 > machine already is an awful lot. We just don't have enough new hardware > to go around. > > Samosa for instance is a DL380-g3, a model that was *retired* by its > manufaturer in January 2005. > > Maximum memory configuration on this particular model is 6 gig, the > machine is maxxed out.
OK, I see. But given that Debian has some spare money, why don't we renew those such machines that are very old, out of warranty, etc? Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111024144506.ga8...@xanadu.blop.info
