On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 02:55:57PM -0400, Soren Andersen (somian@adelphia.net) wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I have set up a system based on a Cyrix P120+ cpu and 96 MB RAM, not
> > huge gobs of free hdd space either. I have (just yesterday...) got X11R6
> > (XFree86) installed. Using the stable XFree86 v4 release. I have got
> > some X client apps set up, like Knews and so on.
>
> I was running on a similar setup (P-133/96MB/4GB) for the past several
> months. WindowMaker, lots of rxvt windows, w3m, and dillo. *None* of
> the other graphical browsers was usable (Opera, Phoenix, Galeon,
> Mozilla, BrowseX). You're making some sacrifices with both w3m and
> dillo, but it's a largely workable combination. No Java/Javascript,
> limited graphics. w3m gives you ssl and htauth, dillo provides good
> graphics and performance.
Odd, have a P-166 80M laptop, and Galeon is a tad slow, but very usable.
Opening up www.cnn.com in Galeon (seems to be a typical page), top shows
this information:
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
910 dasunt 17 10 23756 23M 15432 S N 19.9 30.5 0:33 galeon-bin
924 dasunt 15 10 23756 23M 15432 S N 0.0 30.5 0:00 galeon-bin
925 dasunt 15 10 23756 23M 15432 S N 0.0 30.5 0:00 galeon-bin
926 dasunt 15 10 23756 23M 15432 S N 0.0 30.5 0:00 galeon-bin
927 dasunt 15 10 23756 23M 15432 S N 0.0 30.5 0:00 galeon-bin
935 dasunt 15 10 23756 23M 15432 S N 0.0 30.5 0:00 galeon-bin
410 root 16 -10 15792 8744 1372 S < 8.0 11.2 1:28 XFree86
928 dasunt 9 0 4788 4788 1392 S 0.0 6.1 0:02 GrabWeather
794 dasunt 9 0 4524 4496 1260 S 0.0 5.7 0:11 mutt
529 dasunt 9 0 3364 3220 1476 S 0.0 4.1 0:05 w3m-en
464 dasunt 10 0 3964 3148 2652 S 0.3 4.0 0:03 gkrellm
787 dasunt 9 0 2664 2612 1284 S 0.0 3.3 0:02 w3m-en
879 dasunt 9 0 2440 2440 1272 S 0.0 3.1 0:02 editor
413 dasunt 9 0 2136 2004 1656 S 0.1 2.5 0:01 fluxbox
If I can read top's output correctly, each galeon thread is using
8 megs of unique memory, and 16M of shared memory, bringing the total
up to 56M. w3m runs at about 2-4M, which is a lot more lightweight,
but doesn't work on all websites. But if you have 96M of memory, the
main Galeon process isn't swapping that much, if at all.
Galeon does like to access the HDD though, even if its not swapping, and
I could see where that could present a problem on older, slow HDDs.
However, unlike the parent poster, I tend to use one rxvt window, and
screen. :) I believe I'm saving more memory then him that way.
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