Re: Debian Users...
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 04:00, Caoilte O'Connor <lists@caoilte.org> wrote:
> doesn't fam engage in periodic disk access? i certainly get
> a lot less when not using kde despite having 256M RAM.
I was under the impression that the sole point of FAM was to avoid disk
access, it should use the kernel dnotify interface for this. But even if it
was to repeatedly read a directory this would only cause disk access if you
didn't use the mount option "noatime" (which every laptop user should use).
I have 384M of RAM and swap still gets used when running KDE.
KDE uses lots of CPU time in many instances, loads big executables from disk
with lots of shared objects, and uses plenty of memory which causes swapping.
All these things decrease battery life. Use text mode if you want to get
maximum batter life.
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