2009/7/4 <[email protected]>: > > Hi folks, > I have an oldish laptop with only 128M RAM. It's been running > Debian unstable for a LONG time. But it's been getting slower and > slower. > > The reason for this is the gradually increasing size of the various > apps I run --- basically, X, xterm, bash, vi, LaTeX, and opera or > mozilla. On my other machines I use Emacs or Xemacs extensively; I've > never done that on this one. I use WindowMaker as window manager, it > takes only 7M or so nowadays. Even that's a bit more than I'd like. > > X now takes 219M of virtual memory (most of which swaps in and out, > constantly). opera is OK on straight HTML pages, but for something > like facebook it grows and grows -- mozilla does the same -- and > eventually OOMs. > > Does anyone have suggestions for a low-memory setup?
Some distros are designed specifically for computers like these: puppy comes to mind. I've seen them fly in places where mainstream distros crawl. -- Bring choice back to your computer. http://www.linux.org.au/linux -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
