Yosef Meller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've recently made the move from Gentoo to Kubuntu. All went well, > no special problems; but when I restarted the system after the > install completed, I had a little bit of a shock: gkrellm shows 51% > of my 256MB RAM is used - without doing much!
Why does it bother you? What does "used" mean? Can you post the output of free(1)? > This is about twice what my gentoo system utilized with roughly > the same processes running. What do you mean by that? Can you diff the ps -ef output on two systems? > I've tried the usual stuff to reduce memory consumption: I went > through the list of services (not much to change, Kubuntu runs very > little by default), This is not "the usual stuff to reduce memory consumption". Is there a process (or two) that eat most of the memory? > I've reduced the number of gettys and replaced them with fgetty, > even though I knew the effect is negligible. Why did you bother if you knew there would be no effect? > df showed two tmpfs systems, one of them containing kernel modules I > don't use - I umounted both with no (or little) effect on memory > consumption. Why did you expect it to have any effect? > 2. Ways to optimize memory consumption without compiling stuff? Why do you think that recompilation will help with memory consumption? > I'd really like to go back to the 'swap is for Windows users' days, When was that exactly? > as I don't see any memory upgrade comming soon. It does not sound like you have any memory problems at all. By your own admission you are running happily, with X and stuff, using only about 128M of RAM. You are far away from swap if you stay at this level. And don't even bother trying to run XP in 128M... -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.goldshmidt.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
