Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 07:25:31 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tuning for very little RAM Message-ID: <20100106072531.2b0c18b1.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <1262685825.15832.5.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <1262685825.15832.5.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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In response to Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au>: > 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. The most obvious thing to do is reduce the number of running programs. Go through /etc/ttys, for example, and disable all but one or two consoles, and edit /etc/rc.conf to disable anything that you don't need on the system (possible sendmail, syslog?, etc) -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/
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