On 2/9/07, hkclark@gmail.com hkclark@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/8/07, Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@hughesjr.com wrote:
It should not be a problem as lots of your memory used is buffers and cache.
CentOS-3 is going to be supported for a while yet (EOL is scheduled for Oct 31, 2010), so if it is working perfectly and doing what they want, they may want to keep it though.
If they upgrade or don't, the memory should be OK either way .
Hi Johnny,
Good info -- thanks. They have a small app they want to add that requires a newer version of Perl than 5.8.0 that comes with CentOS 3. Rather than getting into a non-RPM version of Perl, we were thinking going to CentOS 4 would be easier and cleaner.
In your experience, would you say that my "quick & dirty" measurement of CentOS 4 needing 10-25 MB more memory than CentOS 3 (again, for a non-X box with a minimal install) is accurate (at least in approximate
It is more true that the 2.4.20+stuff kernel (RHEL-3) and the 2.6.9+stuff kernel (RHEL-4) allocate buffers differently, and in some ways count free/buffered memory different.