On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 15:09, Ionreflex <ionref...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your inputs, I'll proceed with Xfce installation for now... if I
> end up with another choking slug, I'll come back to haunt you! :o)
As it has been said, just because linux reports more than half of
those 256MB doesn't mean it's actively *using* them, they're being
used as cache to avoid disc i/o (i think). Xfce - or any other light
wm (windowmaker, lxde, enlightenment) - is better for such a laptop
than gnome (good luck uninstalling it).
>From my free -m i get this:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3934 3755 179 0 191 1703
-/+ buffers/cache: 1859 2074
Swap: 1906 50 1855
I doubt my computer's actually using almost 2GB (those 1859), and this
number is high because i have a whole bunch of stuff open[1] plus
services and daemons[2]. It's working like a charm and it would
probably make due with "just" 1GB, but it would probably use the disc
more often. My bottleneck's actually the processor.
HTH,
Nuno Magalhães
[1] grekllm, 1 netbeans project, 1 tab in opera, 1 tab in firefox,
audacious2, 1 tab in gedit, xchat, 3 filemanager windows, pidgin, 3
pdfs, 1 tab in pidgin, 1 terminal... :)
[2] mlnet, nginx, php and mysqld, plus the system usuals.
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