On 1/20/07, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 19 January 2007 23:46, Vlad Dogaru wrote:
> On 1/19/07, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Buy a couple spare RAM modules. Surely I agree with your will to build a
> > minimalistic system, this will help anyway and it's a nice experience,
> > but RAM is quite cheap and is the magic elisir that allows outdated
> > machines to be still usable -the CPU is rarely a problem, unless you
> > often do something quite computationally intensive.
>
> I have 384 megs of RAM and no imediate possibility of buying more. I
> realise it is arguably sufficient for many lightweight applications, but,
> as I mentioned, it is becoming increasingly frustrating, even with the real
> power of Gentoo and Fluxbox (the two have changed my life -- literally).
This is odd.My main workstation also has 384MB of ram. I run a full KDE
session and do not experience any slow down. Right now, I have open: 9
konqueror windows (not tabs), kmail, kmahjongg, konsole with 3 sessions,
noatun, kcalc. My background is a 1024x768 photo which also takes some
memory. Switching between virtual desktops is instantaneous, all apps are
very responsive.
My current Fluxbox session uses 26% of 384 MiB of RAM, with 6 firefox
tabs, Gaim, Eterm, Conky, mpd and other mostly insignificant
processes. But I still experience a serious drop in responsiveness
when opening, say, 3 Slashdot tabs at once, or when starting
linuxdcpp.
One good thing (among others) of using a real desktop environment is that all
apps share the vast majority of libraries which are loaded into memory just
once. When you mix environments or use an eclectic collection of unrelated
apps, they all draw in different libraries and memory usage goes up.
I've tried to keep most things down to GTK and X. For instance, I
haven't even installed qt.
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