On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 02:46:08PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 7/7/06, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > >On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 02:24:12PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > >> I'm *always* swapping on my laptop (which sounds really bad out of > >> context), since my 256MB of RAM is taken up almost entirely by firefox > >> and thunderbird. And that's before loading any pages. Once I > >> resurrect the thing I'll pick up a SODIMM to boost the physical RAM, > >> which should also make it peppier. > > > >definitely. what environment are you running in? my desktop using 256 > >megs rarely swaps. my usual setup is firefox, gnucash and mutt always > >running. When I pull up openoffice I'll start swapping, but not always. > >all this run > >under xfce, which seems pretty lightweight. I'd guess you're using > >gnome or kde? or is tbird really that big? regardless, you might find > >a lighterweight desktop is helpful on that laptop. > > fvwm, with firefox, thunderbird, and a handful of xterms. Firefox > starts up wanting about 120MB, thunderbird about 110MB, as I recall. ----------------------------------------------------^^^^ okay, that makes sense then. I stopped using tbird awhile ago and switched to mutt (with others inbetween), not realising how much of a boost I was getting from that change. It happened along with some other changes that contributed to my system continuing to be more responsive. A
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