timothy stone wrote:
> Hi again -- How do i check to see how many modules are runnign, and how do i
> turnr them off, please?
>
> tim
Hi,
I am not an expert but I am a GUI fan (except the cases I HAVE TO edit
the scripts) and I know you can get information if you go in "Control
Panel".
In Runlevel editor you can see what services are started when you start
Linux.
Usually it starts in Runlevel 3, if you didn'choosed at install the
option to start directly in X (in this case is Runlevel 5).
Read the help. It explains how Runlevel editor works. You have to know
the meaning of the services (read the manual pages) to know what to
eliminate.
In Kernel config (a button with a tooth) you can see the modules used.
You can add and eliminate.
If you use Gnome (which is the default for RH) there is a tool to
monitor the memory, you can see the amount of memory used by different
programs.
I know Gnome was using 30M of my 32M RAM. So I gave up Gnome and I used
Afterstep. It saves about 16M of memory. You can put Gnome and KDE
applications under Afterstep if you keep "core" and "libs" belonging to
Gnome and KDE. For example I use kppp (from KDE) to dial, GnoRPM to
manage rpm, my own backgrounds (modified to the proper format by GIMP),
under Afterstep.
So I made a desktop salad on my own taste making a ballance between the
visual effects and the memory used. You can't do such a thing in
Windows.
I still say you can not run StarOffice quickly without 64M of RAM.
I hope other people will give you better advices, especially from
command line, which I am also interested in.
Returning to the speed, I compared AdobePhotoshop4.0 with GIMP using a
bmp of 1.7M. GIMP is loading faster. The time to work is quite equal,
but difficult to compare because the features have different names. The
usual features(with the same name in both programs) are so fast that I
could not measure precisely.
Regards,
Cristian
