On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 06:42, David E. Fox wrote: > > I have a computer with only 128MB ram, it chuggs along very slowly in X > > Windows. in fstab there is a /tmp tempfs ramdisk, I commented it out so > > I've not looked at tmpfs. My guess is that if /tmp is empty, or has > little in it, there really shouldn't be half (which is the default) of > the RAM allocated to it. Even though that's tunable, that you don't > notice any difference using HD for /tmp makes me think that it wasn't > using up a lot of RAM in the first place. >
I've read that tmpfs is dynamicaly allocated. > On such a system you might try using a lightweight window manager > rather than the default KDE or Gnome, both of which are > memory-intensive. > > definitely. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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