Re: Running Debian with only 213MB Ram?
Hi.
On Sat, 23 May 2015 14:47:27 +0000
Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> On my old laptop I chose Openobex as window manager because Gnome is too heavy
> for it. I get though:
>
> $ free -m
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 213 207 5 4 23 111
> -/+ buffers/cache: 73 140
> Swap: 952 0 952
>
> with just Openobex and Emacs and a couple of terminal emulators running, not
> else. Do you think that is too little?
Your 'free -m' result cleary show that you have 140M free memory. I.e.
65% of your memory is free. Moreover, you managed to avoid using the
swap. An excellent result, if you ask me.
Also, see [1]. And BTW, it's openbox, not Openobex :)
> Then maybe I should gave up hoping to
> use Debian on that machine, and look for - if any exists - other systems?
Why would you choose to do so? As long as overall performance
satisfies you - there's no need to change anything.
> Another thing: reading an old post of mine on Linux Debian Users mailing list,
> some years ago, the above command would show 216 as total Memory. Is it
> possibile that it's decreased since then??
I have no idea of e-mail you're talking about, so no help from me here,
sorry.
[1] http://www.linuxatemyram.com/
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