Re: Running GNOME with 128 MB RAM - Painfully slow?
On Sunday 04 April 2010 08:28:53 pm Tech Geek wrote:
> >You can try adding swap but I doubt it will help much as the disk is so
> > old
>
> and slow
> The hard drive is quite recent and supports up to UDMA2 speeds although I
> too think that adding swap space won't make a difference.
>
> >Adding another 128MB or 256MB of memory would probably help the most with
>
> that system
> Unfortunately there is no option to upgrade the memory on the system. Also
> I forgot to mention that it is a 800 MHz system:
> debian:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : Vortex86 SoC
> cpu family : 5
> model : 2
> model name : 05/02
> stepping : 2
> cpu MHz : 800.041
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> f00f_bug : no
> coma_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 1
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu tsc cx8
> bogomips : 1600.08
> clflush size : 32
> cache_alignment : 32
> address sizes : 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
> power management:
>
> Based on my specs (800 MHz CPU and 128 MB RAM) and [1], I still should be
> able to operate GNOME and some of the apps. However even opening gedit
> brings the system to crawl which is so surprising. I will add some swap and
> see if that makes a difference although I am not counting on it based on my
> past expereince.
>
> [1] http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.0/#performance
XFCE, Fluxbox, et. al. are a better way to do a gui system with specs like that
Don't install anything with 'Gnome' in the package name, or "K/KDE'. Apps that
use GTK libraries without the Gnome stuff maybe.
'Damn Small Linux' does minimal installs., which are hard to duplicate with more
mainstream distro's.
--
Peace
Greg Madden
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