On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 09:58:51AM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 04/ 1/10 04:21 AM, ?????? ?????? (Martin Bochnig) wrote: > >Hello, > > > >everytime it is scheduled to start running, my box becomes totally unusable. > >It is annoying to wait 1 or 2 minutes every time, until I can open a > >terminal window, from where I can pkill -9 it. > >No, I am not complaining. I just let you know. Yes, my system is > >already paging at this point. Why? Because 4GB are not enough anymore > >for a bit daily Desktop work (if you keep the machine on 24x7). > >pm-checkforupdates hogs the CPU. > > You might be pleased to know that memory usage should drop by around > 50% in development builds coming soon.
It might also be worthwhile to figure out what in the desktop environment is consuming all of that memory. I run fvwm2 on my desktop and can happily run Solaris in 768mb of memory on a laptop from 2002. It's not fast, but it does work. -j _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
