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Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?



On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 08:26:24AM +0200, Benedek Frank wrote:
> THanks, and the RES column is that shows the "m" after numbers. Maybe stands 
> for for MB? 
> 
> 22318 root      15   0 43904  32m 5732 S  3.6 13.9  23:48.20 X
>  3814 ben       16   0 48816  31m  21m S  0.0 13.3   2:15.27 kmail
>  4052 ben       16   0 81496  22m  17m R  0.0  9.5   0:17.64 kopete
>  2152 ben       15   0 27776  15m  11m S  0.0  6.5   0:20.47 kmix
> 30692 ben       15   0 32636  14m  12m S  0.0  6.3   0:22.40 knotify
>  4037 ben       15   0 30020  12m 7832 S 24.8  5.3   0:32.65 gnome-terminal
> 22347 ben       15   0 17792  12m 7272 S  0.0  5.3   1:13.85 xfce-mcs-manage
> 30686 ben       16   0 26556  11m 9.8m S  0.0  5.0   0:08.34 kded
>  3850 ben       16   0 25080  10m 8700 S  0.0  4.3   0:00.20 kio_file
>  4140 ben       15   0 49728  10m 8696 S  0.0  4.3   0:00.39 kio_pop3
>  4142 ben       15   0 49728  10m 8696 S  0.0  4.3   0:00.29 kio_pop3
> 22338 ben       15   0 15556   9m 6716 S  0.0  4.2   1:32.69 xfce4-panel
> 30684 ben       16   0 24764 9996 8548 S  0.0  4.2   0:02.08 klauncher
> 30679 ben       17   0 23464 9588 8004 S  0.0  4.0   0:02.13 kdeinit
> 24336 ben       15   0 24424 8972 5740 S  3.0  3.7   8:43.92 gkrellm
> 30682 ben       16   0 22788 8792 7716 S  0.0  3.7   0:01.60

You seem to use libraries of both big desktop environemnts. Not good, even if
256 MiB of RAM is not that few. I've got 192 in one laptop. I only use gtk+
and sometimes gnome apps. No KDE. Even using only KDE apps would be better
than the current situation. Personally, I'd drop all KDE apps and would use
only gtk+ apps. If you want to save even more, consider using console apps in
a terminal instead of GUI apps (centericq, mutt, ...)


j.

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