Re: Installation
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 04:36:38 +0200
lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
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> Run a game like X3 and it will easily need more than 3GB. Have
> seamonkey or another graphical web browser open at the same time and
> that adds about another 1.2GB. That's another "average requirement".
> Of course, you have a WM of some sort running and emacs, that adds about
> another 500MB --- if you don't use KDE or gnome. At that point, you're
> swapping a lot already. Now open gimp, and another 500MB are used
> before you open an image. I don't even think about doing it, I just do
> it. It's what I have open most of the time, so that's a "basic
> requirement" and not even an "average requirement".
Your numbers are much too high. With an amd64 install on a Thinkpad T61
with 2GB ram, I'm currently running Xfce4, two different Iceweasel
profiles with many open tabs (although most of the pages have not yet
been loaded into memory, Sylpheed, audacity with a > .5GB file open,
liferea, Xfce terminal (with about ten tabs), and gnucash - and less
than a gigabyte is being used, and the system isn't really hitting swap:
$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2018036 1878056 139980 0 1836 999780
-/+ buffers/cache: 876440 1141596
Swap: 1949692 23180 1926512
Of the two IW profiles, htop shows one using 200MB and the other 252MB
(res), gnucash and liferea around 50 each, audacity 36, sylpheed 23, X
21, xfce terminal 12.
Celejar
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