Steve Modica wrote:
>
> My suspicion is that for the stuff you're trying to run, you
> need more memory. If you can't get more, or don't want to
> buy more, try turning off as much as possible, changing
> window managers to something simpler than gnome or kde, and
> tuning down your disk caching some. Also, remove everything
> yuou can from your kernel build.
This latter is a very good point. All the distros must include enough
'stuff' to run on all machines. For example <fx: opens terminal, types
ls -al /boot/, reads output> a vanilla redhat 6.1 is 1.6mb, whereas my
current kernel is just over half a meg *including* all the stuff that RH
put as modules.
This can/does make a lot of difference on a machine which is short on
memory.
IIRC there are some windows managers specifically written to be light on
memory rather than pretty. If you are happy hacking then a bit of
system (re)build will be your best option.
Of course, if you're done all this already then I apologise in advance
for wasting everyone's bandwidth :)
J.
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