Actually, pendejo is more often "kid" than "asshole", inspite of what hollywood may make believe. There is little more despective in spanish than calling somebody a kid. "Mr. President, you are a/kid/." Try spitting out the word, it helps.
Darn! I was just going to ask on Ask Slashdot when we'd be getting SMP-on-a-chip, seeing as it *is* the natural progression (more so IMO than video and sound integration, but don't get me started on that:)
Anyhow, this is not i386, so I still ask: does anyone anywhere have any idea when i386 (be that ia32 or ia64 or...) will show its ugly face in SMP-on-a-chip congigurations?
1. if you have multiple swap partitions and explicitly set the same priority in your fstab, the kernel will stripe the VM amongst these partitions, increasing performance quite a bit. You should _not_ make a softRAID array of your swap partitions.
2. "Swap space is slow so put your swapspace on your fastest disk" is true, but could be misleading: the slow thing in harddrives is the seek time, not the transfer tiem. So you should put the swapspace on your least used drives in general (unless there is so much difference between seek times from the fastest and the least-used that it makes sence--ymmv).
Also, you could have a cron job that checks for the amount of free swapspace, and adds|removes swap files as necessary. As in, say you have 128MB of RAM (as you do). You create a 256MB swap partition, and [if your free swap drops below 32MB you create a new 64MB swapfile (with a lower priority than your swap partition--that's the default), and if your free swap grows beyond 112MB you remove the last swapfile] (cron the []). It works, and it could save your day sometime...
You might just be forgetting Maxwell's time-dependant equations, then (specifically $\rot{\vec B}-\frac1c\pder{\vec E}t=\frac{4\pi}c\vec J$). As someone said further up, the problem with meshes is that they effectivly act as high-pass filters, quietly letting through any radiation whose wavelength is less than $\approx1/\sqrt{5}$ of the mesh length. You can check this easily: look through it:) . I find that most of the vox-populi notions about Faraday cages come from radio people, where you only have to worry about very low frequency (long wavelength) radiation. Hey, where is the `submit as TeX' button?
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Actually, pendejo is more often "kid" than "asshole", inspite of what hollywood may make believe. There is little more despective in spanish than calling somebody a kid. /kid/."
"Mr. President, you are a
Try spitting out the word, it helps.
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And up to recently they were even *more* like slashdot.
Chip.
Darn! I was just going to ask on Ask Slashdot when we'd be getting SMP-on-a-chip, seeing as it *is* the natural progression (more so IMO than video and sound integration, but don't get me started on that :)
Anyhow, this is not i386, so I still ask: does anyone anywhere have any idea when i386 (be that ia32 or ia64 or...) will show its ugly face in SMP-on-a-chip congigurations?
Just a couple of additions to this:
1. if you have multiple swap partitions and explicitly set the same priority in your fstab, the kernel will stripe the VM amongst these partitions, increasing performance quite a bit. You should _not_ make a softRAID array of your swap partitions.
2. "Swap space is slow so put your swapspace on your fastest disk" is true, but could be misleading: the slow thing in harddrives is the seek time, not the transfer tiem. So you should put the swapspace on your least used drives in general (unless there is so much difference between seek times from the fastest and the least-used that it makes sence--ymmv).
Also, you could have a cron job that checks for the amount of free swapspace, and adds|removes
swap files as necessary. As in, say you have 128MB of RAM (as you do). You create a 256MB swap partition, and [if your free swap drops below 32MB you create a new 64MB swapfile (with a lower priority than your swap partition--that's the default), and if your free swap grows beyond 112MB you remove the last swapfile] (cron the []). It works, and it could save your day sometime...
One word: harmonics.
You might just be forgetting Maxwell's time-dependant equations, then (specifically $\rot{\vec B}-\frac1c\pder{\vec E}t=\frac{4\pi}c\vec J$). As someone said further up, the problem with meshes is that they effectivly act as high-pass filters, quietly letting through any radiation whose wavelength is less than $\approx1/\sqrt{5}$ of the mesh length. You can check this easily: look through it :) .
I find that most of the vox-populi notions about Faraday cages come from radio people, where you only have to worry about very low frequency (long wavelength) radiation.
Hey, where is the `submit as TeX' button?