I've been using a P3 850 with 512MB ram. Worked great with v6. After the update to v7 its just overloading the installed ram. I've seen 70-90% ram and over 50% swap usage, at which point things become unresponsive. The cpu spikes as swap file usage increases (overhead for swap usage I assume) to where as the swap hits 40%+ the cpu is frequently 30-40% usage.
The P3 MB that I'm using will not take more than 512MB ram, so I cannot directly upgrade the system that way.
I have a ton of older hardware, but much newer than the P3. I'll list what I have tried to use to far.
P4M800PRO-M Via chipset MB tried with each of DDR1 and DDR2 (it supports both). This would allow install, and would run. After ~2 hours it would become unresponsive to where web admin didn’t respond and I could not login at console. Via chipsets are not officially supported on the HCL but this was a super low power solution (26w at the wall). Tried 2 of these boards.
P4M900T-M Via chipset, newer version of the above. Install fails at hardware detection.
Gigabyte 965-S3 Intel chipset (965). Fails at hardware detection. The 965 is on the HCL so I have no idea why this fails install. I get no other messages during CD install, just installation fails.
This is annoying. I have the hardware, I can build super low power solutions. Yet astaro either wont run it, doesn’t support it, or I cant get it stable.
The P4M800 I went so far as to install windows on it, and test stability there. Failed until I installed the correct drivers, after that I was able to run 100% cpu load (prime95) for hours (~12) without a single error. This implies to me that the issue is that I dont have the right drivers for the via chipset, does this make sense?
I'm not a linux guy, which is why I went with astaro about 4-5 years ago. No linux tweaking.
So either suggestions on how to get my hardware working, or what cheap MB that supports a C2D and is low power that will run on Astaro v7?
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