greetings......let me share a little experience with y'all:

Being a relative newbie, I liketo experiment: I got my hands on a 9
(yes!) year old Intergraph server with dual p133 cpu, dual SCSI, and a
lot of goodies on-board...must've cost a fortune back then.....
Anyway, I managed to gather 80 mb of parity ram (hard to find these
days) clocked up to 166 mhz, threw in a handful of SCSi hd's and wanted
to install WIN2K server and Mandrake 8.2

So, having lurked here awhile, I knew I had to install W2K first...CDrom
won't boot..ok, so I make four install disks, boot up, and the machine
freezes after the 4th disk..try again, same story, try 4 times, throw
the disks out of the window (!) - the server is too heavy to throw...who
needs windows anyway?

So, boot the Mandrake boot disk, start installing.....no problems at
all...not even when I found I'd put an old ISA video card into the
machine that couldn't display enough colours....so I throw in a S3
virge, run xconfig, and voila! up and runnning.

I am sooooo tired of M$

so what, may you ask, is my problem ? none really, I run Linux :-)

But is there a small display thingy, like task manager, that can let me
see the workload of the 2 cpu's ? See how they're both performing

thanks for your time
sincerely
Adonai

Adonai wrote:
> greetings......let me share a little experience with y'all:
>
> Being a relative newbie, I liketo experiment: I got my hands on a 9
> (yes!) year old Intergraph server with dual p133 cpu, dual SCSI, and a
> lot of goodies on-board...must've cost a fortune back then.....
> Anyway, I managed to gather 80 mb of parity ram (hard to find these
> days) clocked up to 166 mhz, threw in a handful of SCSi hd's and wanted
> to install WIN2K server and Mandrake 8.2
>
> So, having lurked here awhile, I knew I had to install W2K first...CDrom
> won't boot..ok, so I make four install disks, boot up, and the machine
> freezes after the 4th disk..try again, same story, try 4 times, throw
> the disks out of the window (!) - the server is too heavy to throw...who
> needs windows anyway?
>
> So, boot the Mandrake boot disk, start installing.....no problems at
> all...not even when I found I'd put an old ISA video card into the
> machine that couldn't display enough colours....so I throw in a S3
> virge, run xconfig, and voila! up and runnning.
>
> I am sooooo tired of M$
>
> so what, may you ask, is my problem ? none really, I run Linux :-)
>
> But is there a small display thingy, like task manager, that can let me
> see the workload of the 2 cpu's ? See how they're both performing
>
xosview.


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Adonai <adonai@stofanet.dk> wrote:
> so what, may you ask, is my problem ? none really, I run Linux :-)

congrats )

> But is there a small display thingy, like task manager, that can let me
> see the workload of the 2 cpu's ? See how they're both performing

in a shell u may use "top", under X you have various options:
gkrellm, ktop, ksysguard, gtop to name but a few.

good luck, armin

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I ask

> >>But is there a small display thingy, like task manager, that can let me
> >>see the workload of the 2 cpu's ? See how they're both performing
> >
> >
> > in a shell u may use "top", under X you have various options:
> > gkrellm, ktop, ksysguard, gtop to name but a few.

thanks a lot, guys... gkrellm looks sexy
Adonai