Hi,
I'd like to reduce the memory footprint of FC6. Are there already
webpages that describe how to make Fedora more manageable on those 3-4
year old "junk hardware"? (Some also have worried about the disk
space footprint, but let's leave that out of scope for now..)
I think we have a problem if FC6 can't run properly on IBM ThinkPad
X30 w/ P3/1200 and 256 MB of memory. I think the main bottlenecks are
the amount of memory, relatively slow disks, and swapping on those
relatively slow disks.
A couple of observations:
1) with RHL73 (w/ fvwm2), the battery lasted for 3.5-4.5 hours.
With FC5 or FC6 (with xfce), it lasts for 1.5 hours, even if the
computer is "idle". Either ACPI is a lot worse than APM, or
something is going on. Any ideas how to debug this?
2) yum upgrade from FC5 to FC6 (about 1100 packages) took 8 hours
(just the depsolving, upgrade and cleanup -- all packages and
headers already existed on local disk). Only yum and Xorg were
running at that time.
3) are there more light-weight desktops/WMs than xfce? Recently, it
seems it also has become bloated, e.g.,:
psavola 2644 0.0 3.3 72840 8292 ? Ss Nov21 0:07 xfce-mcs-manager
psavola 2650 0.0 3.7 76792 9140 ? S Nov21 0:31 /usr/bin/xfce4-panel
psavola 2654 0.0 3.1 68484 7844 ? S Nov21 0:02 /usr/libexec/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-menu-plugin [...]
psavola 2745 0.2 3.2 82388 7964 ? S Nov21 1:49 /usr/libexec/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-battery-plugin [...]
and:
$ ldd /usr/libexec/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-battery-plugin
linux-gate.so.1 => (0x00117000)
libxfce4panel.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxfce4panel.so.1 (0x005c4000)
libxfcegui4.so.4 => /usr/lib/libxfcegui4.so.4 (0x003d4000)
libxfce4util.so.4 => /usr/lib/libxfce4util.so.4 (0x00435000)
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x006fc000)
libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x00118000)
libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0x001a5000)
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0x00368000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x0050f000)
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0x001c1000)
libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x00f1e000)
libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0x001ca000)
libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x00236000)
libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x00dbb000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00110000)
libglib-2.0.so.0 => /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00275000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00a94000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x00313000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x0031c000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x005da000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00336000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x0037f000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x00eea000)
libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0x00d04000)
libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x00e99000)
libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x00d55000)
libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x0038f000)
libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0x00da6000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x006e1000)
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0x00bdd000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00444000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00399000)
libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x003ac000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00423000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00d4e000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00df0000)
libexpat.so.0 => /lib/libexpat.so.0 (0x004d3000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00c39000)
Something is wrong when when a simple battery plugin takes 80 MB of
memory..
--
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Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
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