On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 10:43 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> 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?)
> 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
Not sure minimizing is the key with xmms as much as just not using
visualization (or other) plugins. Any memory leaks I've had with xmms
were usually lessened or eliminated by using as few of those as
possible. Fun toys, sure. But if other things like emerges are hurting
as a result, should be an easy call on what to lose.
> 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)
My main laptop is a 1ghz with 256mb. Its been hanging in there quite
well for all the abuse I give it. The spamd processes are all coming
from evolution, and I haven't found (or, admittedly, really looked for)
a way to get evolution to use the lightweight spamc talking to a
long-running spamassassin daemon which would be a huge improvement for
it in terms of wasted effort in starting a whole perl interpreter for
each piece of email it processes. VNC is probably consuming a bit of
resources for you too. If you are reading your mail from other linux
boxes, they can ssh in and tunnel the x screen directly without making
your laptop keep a whole framebuffer and x server alive just for your
mail. In fact, I even went further in the other direction by having my
evolution actually running on a spare desktop of mine, with imap and pop
connections to all the various spots, and when I read email from my
laptop, I'm just tunneling the screen (over wireless) and letting a
desktop do the real work of handling the mail. I did that mainly to free
up drive space on my laptop, but it is a nice way to unload some
processing to a machine other than my laptop. I'm always running gnome
too, and rarely go without music. Looks like a number of the things
you're running can be pretty memory-intensive. Only running apache/vnc
as-needed or moving them off to old machines that would otherwise be
used as doorstops could free up enough resources to be a noticeable
improvement. I stopped having the mysql server always be running on my
laptop, but it only takes a few seconds to start it up for logging
either wireless signals or my route and notes for photography trips. The
amount of memory you've got should be pretty reasonable for a laptop,
but if vnc and apache are business requirements for you, maybe you
should shoot for 768mb or more.
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