OK, so its a bit more than a week
Normaly with this laptop things start to slow down when kontact is open and there are around 5 web pages open in konqueror, then open something in abiword and it almost grinds to a complete stop.
At the moment there are 11 web pages open in konqueror, around half of them fairly heavy and using flash, kontact is open, kmldonkey is open, abiword is open and xmms is playing and not missing a beat.
Just opened a spreadsheet in openoffice too, it took around twice as long to open as it would on an empty session. Now it is up and running everything is responsive with nothing taking much more than a second to come up when switching desktops.
Some of the web pages are taking a little longer, less than 3 seconds to change tabs and the poxy flash animations are jumpy. Dont really care, flash is a waste of a good connection
Anyway, it works
digital8doug, thanks for reminding me.
CF card is a sandisk 512MB, not sure what speed, I think its 4x
output 'free':
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 190800 187924 2876 0 2152 58728
-/+ buffers/cache: 127044 63756
Swap: 497972 200028 297944
note: had to add 'pci=usepirqmask' to the kernel commands in /boot/grub/menu.1st to get the pcmcia system to work. The kernel told me to do it. Thanks kernel.
Cheers
Stan