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Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:45:29 +0200
From: "Vlad Dogaru" <ddvlad@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system
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On 1/20/07, Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na> wrote:
> On 19 January 2007 23:46, Vlad Dogaru wrote:
> > On 1/19/07, b.n. <brullonulla@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Buy a couple spare RAM modules. Surely I agree with your will to build a
> > > minimalistic system, this will help anyway and it's a nice experience,
> > > but RAM is quite cheap and is the magic elisir that allows outdated
> > > machines to be still usable -the CPU is rarely a problem, unless you
> > > often do something quite computationally intensive.
> >
> > I have 384 megs of RAM and no imediate possibility of buying more. I
> > realise it is arguably sufficient for many lightweight applications, but,
> > as I mentioned, it is becoming increasingly frustrating, even with the real
> > power of Gentoo and Fluxbox (the two have changed my life -- literally).
>
> This is odd.My main workstation also has 384MB of ram. I run a full KDE
> session and do not experience any slow down. Right now, I have open: 9
> konqueror windows (not tabs), kmail, kmahjongg, konsole with 3 sessions,
> noatun, kcalc. My background is a 1024x768 photo which also takes some
> memory. Switching between virtual desktops is instantaneous, all apps are
> very responsive.
My current Fluxbox session uses 26% of 384 MiB of RAM, with 6 firefox
tabs, Gaim, Eterm, Conky, mpd and other mostly insignificant
processes. But I still experience a serious drop in responsiveness
when opening, say, 3 Slashdot tabs at once, or when starting
linuxdcpp.
> One good thing (among others) of using a real desktop environment is that all
> apps share the vast majority of libraries which are loaded into memory just
> once. When you mix environments or use an eclectic collection of unrelated
> apps, they all draw in different libraries and memory usage goes up.
I've tried to keep most things down to GTK and X. For instance, I
haven't even installed qt.
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