On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 15:52, Bob Proulx wrote: [...]
> However note that he original poster in this thread was complaining > that his 4G ram machine wasn't large enough. I still think 4G of ram > is quite a lot. Or at least it should be. It is still sufficient for > me. If Debian at this time can't fit in 4G then that is bad. And I > said why because there are many smaller ARM machines and I think they > are the future. But I think the problem is most likely heavy desktops > and heavy web browsers. Those are the traditional biggest bloat items > on today's systems. You are correct. The problem is not Debian. It may be the particular suite of software the OP uses. I can say this with some conviction given that I am currently running Debian "testing" on an OpenPandora with 512 MB of RAM. Performance is not great: it has a 600 MHz processor which I overclock to 800 MHz but memory is not the bottleneck. With X11, a window manager (ratpoison or lxde), emacs and a few xterms, I am comfortably within the RAM I have. If I start up Firefox (iceweasel), then problems do arise... so I use other browsers such as dillo, lynx or, most often, eww within Emacs. -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 24.4.1 + Ma Gnus v0.12 + evil-git-43eaf60 : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2014-08-30 22:31:11 -0500) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/871tilkkop....@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk
