From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no>,
Maciej Zenczykowski <maze@druid.if.uj.edu.pl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [OT] Re: Thrashing WITHOUT swap.
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:02:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01062518025100.01008@starship> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106242133550.19801-100000@druid.if.uj.edu.pl> <3B3702B5.13554207@idb.hist.no>
In-Reply-To: <3B3702B5.13554207@idb.hist.no>
On Monday 25 June 2001 11:21, Helge Hafting wrote:
> If it still is too slow - add RAM or run fewer/smaller apps.
> Opera is a low-memory alternative to netscape. Avoiding
> gnome/kde apps when plain X apps are available is also a good idea
> when you're short on memory. Using low resolution and low-color
> modes might help a little if you do lot of graphics. But then
> you might not want that.
Further to that, I followed Alan's lead and installed xfce. My laptop, which
was really suffering under Gnome with 64 meg (much more so under KDE) is
suddenly light on its feet. Not to mention that it built from source in
under 10 minutes and installed with zero 'interesting problems'.
After another year of optimizing the kernel to handle bloatware better, and
at the same time encouraging the 'big desktop' side of Linux to follow the
lead of these lightweight alternatives[1] we will be looking pretty good.
--
Daniel
[1] by voting with our feet
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-25 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-24 19:47 Thrashing WITHOUT swap Maciej Zenczykowski
2001-06-24 20:07 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-06-24 21:36 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-25 8:13 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-06-25 16:14 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-06-25 9:21 ` Helge Hafting
2001-06-25 16:02 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
[not found] ` <9h7ne1$1bn$1@ns1.clouddancer.com>
2001-06-25 16:16 ` [OT] " Colonel
2001-06-25 16:32 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-26 12:36 ` john slee
2001-06-27 12:52 ` Ookhoi
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