On 07/11/2010 10:23 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 09:01 -0700, JD wrote: >> On 07/11/2010 09:10 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: >>> I've been running Fedora on my old Thinkpad A22p (P-III/M w/512MB) >> With only half a gig of ram, you will end up thrashing like crazy. >> Of course you will have a high load factor. >> How about putting in it the maximum amount of ram the notebook can handle. >> Ram is cheap now! > JD, > > I'd love to, but the operative word in my msg was "old". The memory > sockets in the A22p support only 256MB SODIMMs. 512MB was huge in those > days. > > Since sending my last message I discovered that F13, like earlier > versions, insists on installing the beagle indexer. That's a serious > performance killer on an old machine. Removing beagle, beagle-gnome, and > beagle-evolution has provided some relief, but there's something else > still feeding on my system. I'm looking for other CPU/RAM hungry > services I don't need. Like beagle, they may not be controlled by > chkconfig. > > --Doc Savage > Fairview Heights, IL > After you start top, the command P (upper case) shows top cpu hogs. Look under the tab %CPU the command M shows top memory hogs. Memory hogs usually have a very high resident set of pages. You will have to be careful what you remove though :) Good luck. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
