On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 03:50, Bob Sanders wrote: > > > > gdesklets is also one memory hog.(40MB) > > nautilus (40MB) > > xmms (25MB) > > SLAPD (35MB) > > APACHE(29MB, each I think ) > > SPAMD (25MB, each?) > > > > You might want to go lightwieght during the emerges. Stop Apache for > instance. Or, for a laptop, unless there is something really specific > that apache provides, dump it and use monkeyd. I'll have a look at this monkey when I get time to monkey with it :-)
> > If you really need apache, par it down to just two server instances. no > need to tie up xtra resources if it's not necessary. Yeah.. I just did that. > > And if you haven't, minimize xmms - that eye candy eats memory, as well as > uses disk i/o. Same with nautilus. Not only are you swapping, the laptops > i/o bandwidth is being eaten into by a lot of eye-candy - dma accesses from > memory to gfx. File updates for processes idling around, mostly doing little > if nothing. yeah.. A _lot_ of eye candy. I've got lots of applets running on gnome. Does minimising xmms really work? Nope.. VIRTUAL = 27MB,RES=7MB,SHR=5MB > > If your willing to give up a bit of desktop integration, you might try > something > like fluxbox with rox. hehe.. Been using gnome since day 1 and I like it. Except for the SLow HD accesses, it's OK(but since I tried out a desktop system 2.4G P4 W/512MB RAM,,, I know mine's slow) Fluxbox is being used for VNC sessions to access to my evolution mail over LAN Links. > You can get icons on the desktop with a fairly decent > file manager with a lot less weight. Same thing with web browsers - dillo > works well for most sites without having to pull out the heavyweight - > firefox, > or the battleship - mozilla. it's not the heavy and light stuffs I'm talking about, it used to matter when I was using a P166 w 72MB ram on RH8. @ that time, I was concerned with lightweight. Right now, Pentium M 1.4Ghz w 512MB Ram, it shouldn't matter _as_much_. :-) I'm still figuring it out.. :-) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:37:32 up 1:34, 7 users, load average: 0.41, 0.77, 0.95 -- [email protected] mailing list
