[ltp] Lightening Debian

[cr]

On Tue, 03 May 2005 02:21, Bert Haskins wrote:
> cr wrote:
> >I've just installed Debian Sarge on my  Thinkpad i1200 (550MHz, 64MB RAM)
> > and it's very overloaded in X with Metacity as the default window
> > manager, it just about grinds to a halt.
>
> Your problem may be just in having too little ram.

I'm sure it is!!   But the odd thing is, Debian Woody + Gnome/Sawfish runs 
perfectly happily in 64MB, even running stuff like Quanta, Opera or Gimp 
without a hiccup.    So the newer version in Sarge must have got dramatically 
heavier.

For what it's worth, Damn Small Linux and Morphix (Light GUI version) run 
quite happily off CD in the 64MB.  But I'm having trouble installing them to 
the hard drive, so I figured (since Debian Sarge has installed successfully) 
it might be easier to tweak that.

> I have noticed a huge performance difference in fedora 3 between 128 and
> 256 MB.
> If you watch the hard drive activity led it is easy to see the
> difference in the amount of swapping.

Slightly OT - my father once bought a 386, 20MH HD, 2MB RAM, on which some 
fool had installed Win95 and Doublespace on the hard drive.  (Doublespace 
compresses everything into one big file).    Trying to scroll down a document 
was excruciating as the thing tried to swap stuff in and out of RAM, 
meanwhile needing to use the same RAM to compress/uncompress it....   8-(

cr