Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 09:22, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 08:50:29AM +0200, Karolina Lindqvist wrote:
> > onsdagen den 9 april 2003 07.44 skrev Daniel Stone:
> > > 256mb of RAM is an irresponsible figure
> > > to be bandying around.
> >
> > Memory chips often comes in 128MB increments, don't they?
>
> Not to mention 64mb.
>
> > So the choice is between 128 or 256.
>
> Or 64. Or 96.
>
> > My recommendation is to get that 256. The
> > cost is not great nowadays. 128Mb is about the cost of one night out, so
> > it just means not going to that club one weekend and instead going to the
> > nearest shop for some RAM, and spend the evening putting it in, breaking
> > your nails and scratching your nuckles is the process.
>
> Umm, it's still about $au60-80; people often don't have that money to
> spare. My AthlonXP 2400+ is a direct upgrade from the PII 350, which I
> had for ages.
Oh gosh, here we go again, a member of the "hardware is so cheap today"
school. Certain companies in Silicon Valley have been funding members of that
school for ages (after all it takes lots of manhours to write enough code for
an OS that takes up 100 megs). I upgraded my pentium a while ago (correction:
I replaced a faulty memory chip with a working one) from 48 to 80 megs.
Costed me 25 euro, and that was a bargain. Normally I'd buy a lot more for "
banks of 32 megs.
Yes I am talking about EDO ram of course! ever tried putting SDram into a
pentium 1? There are parts of the world where people earn the equivalent of
0.25 euros an hour. That means 2 weeks of work for my cheap 2 sticks of
memory.
> 128mb, as I have repeatedly stated, works. I'll drag the PII back out to
> prove a point, in fact. Hell, it even works fine on my P233MMX laptop,
> complete with 48mb of RAM. Disable klipper, chown .ICE-unix, disable
> kwrited, disable kalarmd, and you've got an entirely usable system on a
> low-end machine.
Just tried the ice-unix trick and it helps a great deal.
> > One of my friends has 64MB on her windows-98 machine. That works, but is
> > not the greatest.
>
> My sister has 32mb. Again, works, but isn't the greatest.
I found 48 megs horrible under win98.
> The point is that your figures of 256mb are extremely irresponsible,
> considering users respect you somewhat for your packaging, and I'd
> prefer you either checked your facts with a program you knew not to be
> incorrect, or just left it alone. It runs fine on anything from 64mb
> upwards, and even on 48mb, if you tune it a bit.
On such a machine I never run the DE besides, only applications on top of,
say, Windowmaker.
--
Frank Van Damme | "Saying 8MB of RAM doesn't do as much anymore is
http://www. | like saying a gallon of water holds more than it
openstandaarden.be | did in 1988." --George Adkins
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