Re: Pathetic Performance
On 25 Jan 2000, John Hasler wrote:
> Jesse writes:
> > Sure, it's not a K6, and more ram would help, but this should be
> > sufficient for a comfortably fast non-graphics-intensive workstation.
>
> He's running Corel, which means KDE with bells on. With only 24M he'll be
> into swap before he touches the mouse.
>
> Dump KDE and install a small window manager such as icewm (or learn to use
> the command line).
A little harsh, but probably true.
I'm running KDE 1.1.2 on Debain 2.1 with 36M RAM, and end up using ~300k
of swap if checked right after a startup. It appears to cruise at
~14M(?).
If you slim down the kernel, link ash to /bin/sh, and use mingetty
instead of getty, it will probably work ok for non-graphics intensive
stuff.
- Bruce
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