On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 15:23 +0200, Pekka Savola wrote: > 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? I'd guess you're hitting the disk and draining the battery. > > 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. yum is a python application and as such, will always be slower and more memory intensive then c/cpp based applications (such as apt) - especially when it comes to CPU/memory intensive tasks such as dep-solving. > > 3) are there more light-weight desktops/WMs than xfce? Recently, it > seems it also has become bloated, e.g.,: [snip] > Something is wrong when when a simple battery plugin takes 80 MB of > memory.. XFCE 4.4 is a real memory hog - almost as much as KDE/GNOME do. I'm using IceWM on my PII366/256MB laptop and it works like a champ. I'll submit the RPM to extra when I'll have some free time. - Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
