[ltp] Setting up dual-boot on my R31 (and other desktops, too)

Florian Manschwetus linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:21:14 +0200


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Florian Manschwetus wrote:
> Richard Neill wrote:
>>
>>
>> Jeffrey Davis wrote:
>>> On Saturday 29 July 2006 08:55 pm, Richard Neill wrote:
>>>
>>>> James Knott wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> thinkpadr31@lkv.mailshell.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm thinking of setting up my Thinkpad R31 with Windows and 
>>>>>> Linux.   I
>>>>>> have 1 GB of RAM.
>>>>
>>>> Gentoo has its advantages: note though that it is time-consuming, and
>>>> requires a degree of expertise. Also, it needs a lot of disk space for
>>>> the source code.
>>>> If you can spare the space, I recommend > 2GB of swap. Mozilla and
>>>> firefox both have a nasty tendency to eat RAM, and consume 2GB each if
>>>> used for a week without closing them!
>>>
>>>
>>> I can see where that much swap might be needed when compiling and 
>>> installing  Gentoo, but in my experience, that much swap is overkill. 
>>> The old rule of thumb that your swap space should be about double the 
>>> amount of installed RAM isn't as important as it was a few years ago.
>>
>> I'd have liked to agree with you. However, on my desktop system, I 
>> wish I had configured more than 2GB of swap. This + 2GB of RAM is only 
>> (just) sufficient to keep mozilla + firefox happy for a week. Then I 
>> have to 
> never had these problems? my swap is nearly never used (T60 with 1 gig)
> (gentoo testing with pentiumm + sse3)
i have to correct me i have had such problems it depends on the 
windowmanager (if it only manages the windows or even the ram (f.e. kwin))

florian
>> close them. I agree though - it's a dreadful case of memory-leaks!
>>
>> I do use other applications too, but the others are well behaved!
>>
>> Richard
> 
> florian


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