Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-08 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 292, Issue 8, Message: 13 On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 15:52:59 + Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:03:45 +1000 Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 08:03:45PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now. I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is absolutely hammering the swap. I'm trying to set it up as a demo for some skeptics with no

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au: Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now. I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is absolutely hammering the swap. I'm trying to set it up as a demo for some skeptics

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:03:45 +1000 Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now. I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is absolutely hammering the swap. I'm trying to set it up as

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 04:25:31 PST Bill Moran wrote: In response to Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au: Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now. I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is absolutely hammering the swap. I'm

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 09:21:06 PST Charlie Kester wrote: For some ideas on which apps to try, look at the apps bundled in some of the Linux distros that target small machines. http://bengross.com/smallunix.html has a good list of these distros. Hmm, I probably should have checked that

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Charlie Kester wrote: Assuming you have to use X, you'll want to avoid heavyweight desktop environments like KDE or Gnome. I like tiled window managers like musca or dwm myself, but your skeptics will probably want a more traditional window manager (aka MS-Windows clone)

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 09:52:32 PST Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Charlie Kester wrote: Assuming you have to use X, you'll want to avoid heavyweight desktop environments like KDE or Gnome. I like tiled window managers like musca or dwm myself, but your skeptics will probably want a

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Kaya Saman
[...] I don't think we want to hijack this thread or this forum and turn it into a debate over which window managers and apps are best. As I pointed out in my followup to my original reply, there's already a voluminous discussion on those topics. I think we should simply point interested

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 21:02 +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: [...] I don't think we want to hijack this thread or this forum and turn it into a debate over which window managers and apps are best. As I pointed out in my followup to my original reply, there's already a voluminous discussion on

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 11:02:49 PST Kaya Saman wrote: [...] I don't think we want to hijack this thread or this forum and turn it into a debate over which window managers and apps are best. As I pointed out in my followup to my original reply, there's already a voluminous discussion on those

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 09:21:06AM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 04:25:31 PST Bill Moran wrote: In response to Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au: Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now. I have revived an old laptop which