Thursday 7 November 2013

HP N54L Microserver and Ubuntu - Part four

The Microserver is running great, one thing I noticed was it came with a single 2GB piece of memory, with a slot spare.

It's more efficient running two DIMM modules (dual channel) so I waited until the server was bedded in and no issues and found a brand new module on Ebay for £10.

Installing it was so quick I forgot to take some photos, there are a few guides on the web showing how to slide the system board forwards.

It now powers up with 4GB and the memory usage shows at 9%.

If there was an issue I noticed the current Firefox build seems to suffer memory leaks, I might have my cache set very high as well but I noticed with 2GB of RAM that every now and then when I'm running multiple windows I see a lot of memory used.

If Firefox was closed and memory monitored it didn't always release all the memory, I'll monitor it now I've got more and see what happens.

It might be I need to set the Cache at a sensible level, I often have them set quite high.

At the moment I'm still running 32 bit Ubuntu on the server, there was no need to format and rebuild the system - I've got a hard drive bay empty so might invest in another SSD (the same as my laptop) and install an SSD in for the OS, at that point I might switch to 64 bit.

My Samsung 128gb Pro is running great, although expensive the laptop runs quickly and file movement is lightning fast, if I see an offer on one of these drives I might snap it up and rebuild the server OS, boot up times should be insane.