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Title: machine memory size and pine mail reader! and also midnight
Post by: ed sharpe on July 07, 2002, 12:16:41 PM

What a surprise to find pine the  text based mail read on the  SME server. is there a reason for this? Brught back memories... I just  for some odd reason typed in PINE and up it jumped up!

ok next question I made an sme  server on 16 megs of memory, now have added more memory what do I need to change to allow the machine to use more memory or will it :just know" to use it  like windows does?

one other added note was happy to  use midnight commander  to move some files around. WHat else is lurking on this box in the way of useful little utilities?

thanks ed sharpe archivist for smecc

Title: Re: machine memory size and pine mail reader! and also midni
Post by: Andy Parkinson on July 07, 2002, 01:32:57 PM

It should just recognise the  increase in memory. To be sure log in as root and type free at the command prompt. There are some machines that incorrectly report back the amount of memory to Linux. Mainly Compaq but apparently there are a few others as well. If this does prove to be the case there is a howto here http://www.sulman.org/sme/mem.html

Title: Re: machine memory size and pine mail reader! and also midni
Post by: ed sharpe on July 08, 2002, 08:27:00 PM

shall try that thanks! -ed!
Andy Parkinson wrote:
>
> It should just recognise the  increase in memory. To be sure
> log in as root and type free at the command prompt. There are
> some machines that incorrectly report back the amount of
> memory to Linux. Mainly Compaq but apparently there are a few
> others as well. If this does prove to be the case there is a
> howto here http://www.sulman.org/sme/mem.html

Title: Re: machine memory size and pine mail reader! and also midni
Post by: Nathan Fowler on July 08, 2002, 09:26:46 PM

There are a many useful utilities on E-Smith, I'll summarize a few of the following:

df -h (Return the free space of the drive, Human Readable)
du -h --max-depth=1 /home/e-smith/files/users (Return the sizes of the user directories)
free -m (Return the memory used, in Megabytes)
/sbin/e-smith/console (Access the E-Smith console without having to login as admin)
lynx (Nice text based web browser)
top (Process information and resource utilization)

Hope this was useful,
Nathan

Title: Re: machine memory size and pine mail reader! and also midni
Post by: ed sharpe on July 12, 2002, 12:36:19 AM

thanks for the useful hints Nathan!

ed sharpe

Nathan Fowler wrote:
>
> There are a many useful utilities on E-Smith, I'll summarize
> a few of the following:
>
> df -h (Return the free space of the drive, Human Readable)
> du -h --max-depth=1 /home/e-smith/files/users (Return the
> sizes of the user directories)
> free -m (Return the memory used, in Megabytes)
> /sbin/e-smith/console (Access the E-Smith console without
> having to login as admin)
> lynx (Nice text based web browser)
> top (Process information and resource utilization)
>
> Hope this was useful,
> Nathan