Russell Coker, 2003-Nov-20 04:14 +1100: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 04:00, Caoilte O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > doesn't fam engage in periodic disk access? i certainly get > > a lot less when not using kde despite having 256M RAM. > > I was under the impression that the sole point of FAM was to avoid disk > access, it should use the kernel dnotify interface for this. But even if it > was to repeatedly read a directory this would only cause disk access if you > didn't use the mount option "noatime" (which every laptop user should use). > > I have 384M of RAM and swap still gets used when running KDE. > > KDE uses lots of CPU time in many instances, loads big executables from disk > with lots of shared objects, and uses plenty of memory which causes swapping. > All these things decrease battery life. Use text mode if you want to get > maximum batter life.
I got rid of fam altogether. I didn't feel it was providing enough benefit to have it running on my laptop. KDE is doing just fine without it. I have 512MB of RAM and shut down swap. I got tired of all the swapping. This is working very nicely for me. Even with two VMware machines running and a few documents open in OpenOffice1.1.0, it still only uses less than 40% of RAM. KDE 3.1.4 runs quite fast on my PIII 1.2 Dell Latitude C610 and the battery time is respectable at a couple hours with one battery in it. jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
