Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 00:04:26 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tuning for very little RAM Message-ID: <20100106080426.GA65717@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <1262685825.15832.5.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <1262685825.15832.5.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 08:03:45PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now. > > I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is > absolutely hammering the swap. > > I'm trying to set it up as a demo for some skeptics with no money, so I > need email, internet (with plugins), openoffice, acrobat, and wine. > > Aside from all that though, for the academics of it how can I help this > situation? The laptop has around 100MB RAM, with 16k free, and has a new > install of FreeBSD 8.0. > > Cheers > It's late here so I'm pretty much doing this ad hoc, but I think you should renice the least important apps. Your mail MUA/MTA can be set to very low prio, for instance. If this is an ongoing demo, bring up and leave up OOo and have it set a it higher than your email. wine: don't know. Your broswer should be set very high. gary PS: About three years back I ran a 1998 HP deskyop with less than 512M with full KDE. It was slow is some things, but perfectly adaquate so long as I didn't try everything at once! > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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