raphael wrote:
Hello all,
I have a PowerPC, 64 RAM, with woody updated. Icewm as Window Manager.
The trouble is: it's so slow, sooo sloooow. It takes 5 seconds to open a
terminal, and so on. XFCE was not bearable. Not to saw about Gnome or
KDE.
The MacOS 9.2 on the same computer is an arrow, compared to it!
Did I forgot to remove some useless processes?
There is a "Small X" howto somewhere on the net I think. It describes
how to save memory in your X setup.
In X:
- Remove font servers
- Remove all scaleable fonts from X font path
- Disable backing-store (X -bs, depends on how you start X where this
must be changed)
- Do not use background graphics only xsetroot -solid <something>
top:
1000 raphael 17 0 1292 1292 956 R 0.6 2.0 0:00 top
486 root 10 -10 34756 17M 5916 S < 0.4 29.6 0:20 XFree86
1 root 8 0 592 472 460 S 0.0 0.7 0:05 init
2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 media-bay
3 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd
4 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kswapd
6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush
7 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdated
53 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd
112 daemon 9 0 520 364 364 S 0.0 0.5 0:00 portmap
Portmap is only needed if you absolutely want fam (for KDE or Gnome) or
nfs. I don´t think you need any of them.
199 root 9 0 692 604 512 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 syslogd
206 root 9 0 1348 472 472 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 klogd
212 root 9 0 732 556 556 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 rpc.statd
statd is only for nfs
239 root 8 0 1116 808 716 S 0.0 1.3 0:00 cupsd
Do you have a printer? If not stop cupsd.
255 root 7 -5 796 616 556 S < 0.0 0.9 0:00 diald
268 root 9 0 736 564 536 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 gpm
If X is working, gpm is useless. Do you use a modem? If not remove diald.
290 root 9 0 608 464 464 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 inetd
inetd is probably not needed - ssh is the only login service you should run.
331 proxy 9 0 944 620 612 S 0.0 1.0 0:00 wwwoffled
338 root 9 0 6684 1256 848 S 0.0 2.0 0:05 xfs
This must go away. Scaled fonts use a lot of memory in X for some reason.
344 root 9 0 592 500 456 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 pmud
351 root 8 0 824 668 612 S 0.0 1.0 0:00 cron
356 raphael 9 0 1500 1140 1140 S 0.0 1.8 0:00 bash
357 root 9 0 576 448 448 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 getty
358 root 9 0 576 448 448 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 getty
359 root 9 0 576 448 448 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 getty
360 root 9 0 576 448 448 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 getty
361 root 9 0 576 448 448 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 getty
Have a look in /etc/inittab, you probably don´t need that many gettys,
but on the other hand they´re very small.
478 raphael 9 0 1272 1016 1016 S 0.0 1.6 0:00 startx
485 raphael 9 0 600 412 412 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 xinit
489 raphael 9 0 1244 996 996 S 0.0 1.6 0:00 sh
490 raphael 9 0 2440 1700 1408 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 icewm
491 raphael 9 0 3124 2024 1488 S 0.0 3.2 0:01 gnome-terminal
Might be usefull to compare the size of gnome-terminal with rxvt. Keep
the number of lines in your scrollback-buffer low.
492 raphael 9 0 700 532 532 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 gnome-pty-helpe
493 raphael 9 0 1540 1176 1176 S 0.0 1.8 0:00 bash
538 root 8 0 1532 1332 1184 S 0.0 2.1 0:00 bash
549 raphael 11 0 3864 2940 2264 S 0.0 4.7 0:01 gnome-terminal
550 raphael 9 0 704 536 536 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 gnome-pty-helpe
551 raphael 9 0 1604 1420 1280 S 0.0 2.2 0:00 bash
Nicolai
