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belorntoday at 8:58 AM1 replyview on HN

For a very long time, the computer club I was in operated a DNS server on a Pentium 75MHz and after the last major hardware upgrade it had a total of 110MB RAM memory and 2G disk space. It worked great except that before the upgrade it tended to run out of ram whenever there was a Linux kernel update, a problem we solved forever by populating all the ram slots with the maximum that the motherboard could handle to that nice 110 MB.


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psd1today at 1:20 PM

Did you populate the motherboard with the most it could handle, or the most you could assemble from a box of assorted sticks?

Otherwise, 110MB would hint at a fascinating engineering culture at the motherboard manufacturer.