Re: Debian on ancient machines
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:36:31 -0600
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On 02/23/07 09:39, Celejar wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:39:46 -0500
> > Matthew K Poer <matthewpoer@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 13:19 -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> [snip]
> > course Xfce-Terminal (with about a half dozen tabs generally open).
>
> Using rxvt would save you a load of RES memory.
Thanks, I'm going to look into rxvt. Right now, 'firefox-bin' (IW)
processes have 38m RES (2 tabs open -
http://gentoo-wiki.com/FAQ_Linux_Memory_Management and
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1445 :) ), Sylpheed has 14m, Xorg has
11m, Xfce-terminal has 10m, about 8 - 10 entries have between 5 - 10m,
followed by bash processes between 1.9 - 2m. free reports 70m used, and
the system isn't swapping. Since it rarely does (192m total), I've
never been too concerned about memory usage, but I suppose I'm geeky
enough to believe in squeezing out all the efficiency I can, even
though I'm not enough of a geek to have ever written firmware or put
together a circuit board :)
Celejar
--
ssuds.sourceforge.net - Home of Ssuds and Ssudg, a Simple Sudoku Solver
and Generator
Reply to: