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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