On 2/9/07, hkclark at gmail.com <hkclark at gmail.com> wrote: > On 2/8/07, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at 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. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"