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