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Benchmarking?

Jabird
hello again, I need to know if there is a good benchmarking program for linux, because my science project is on computer memory so i need to run a benchmarking program to figure out stats then swap memory.
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Kernel Woes

chrispope
I run Suse linux 9. 0 professional on my toshiba m15-s405 laptop, it has 512mb of ram and a p4m processor. I never have more than 250mb ram used all together including what linux has cached, buffered, and not to mention my tmpfs /tmp file in ram.
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Dual booting on Grub with two harddisk

sagisunbluez
I have two hard drives in my computer. The 40GB has Windows 2k on it. The 4GB has RedHat Linux 9 Kernel 2. 4. 20-8 installed on it with GRUB on the Master Boot Record (MBR) and that hard drive has the jumper set as the Master.
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Two Hard Drive Dual Boot with XP and RedHat Linux 9

zpac2388
I have two hard drives in my computer. The 40GB Western Digital has Windows XP on it and it is currently set to be the Slave. The 20GB Western Digital has RedHat Linux installed on it with GRUB on the Master Boot Record (MBR) and that hard drive has the jumper set as the Master.
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Desktop Shortcuts Suse 8.2

Jay in PA
Hello everybody, I just downloaded and installed Netscape 7. 1 because Konqueror and Opera just did not load all Flash sites and pages properly. Netscape 7. 1 is the best browser for SuSE I've found.
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Mandrake 9.1/WinXP Duel boot issue

lb99
Everything is fine with the bootloader and Mandrake hasn't screwed up on me so far but when I try to boot into windows I get a blue screen with an UNMOUTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME error message. It said to disable BIOS caching/shadowing but that made no difference.
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DvD better playback and Games better performance within X

GhostSong
Greetings , I Thought would be great to have an open topic which we can all talk/ask and share knowledge and opinions & thoughts about this issue I'd like to share with you and that's why i made a start of something like this Here we can discuss about DvD & Games performance not only within X and in general about o ...
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Cannot get Java working

qshakoor
Hello everyone, I am trying to install Java JRE 1. 3 (also tried 1. 4) to work with my Linux 8. 0 (fresh install). Having no prior knowledge of Linux I followed the instructions provided by Sun website step-by-step.
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tweak and perfomance test

new2this
Is there a software that is similar to SiSsandra that works under linux or is there a way to run SiSsandra under Linux, more specific RedHat 8. 0? thanks you for your help. .
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Nvidia driver NVchooser help please.

xfrat
Everyone now will think i am the most not too smart using linux. i never seen linux before if not for request of friend. now my question, i wanted to run my video card with nvidia driver. but i dont want to destroy the linux redhat7 and the warning in nvidia forums are pointing to that.
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5 button mouse

blueworm
Mandrake 9. 0 the problem. Trust ami 250 sx optical mouse. ps/2 It has 3 buttons wheel and a further 2 side buttons. I have got it all to work, these are the pertinent lines in XF86Config-4 Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol ExplorerPS/2 Option Device /dev/psaux Option Buttons 7 Opti ...
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