On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 08:33:05PM -0700, Tech Geek wrote: > So I have a very low end system which has 128 MB of RAM and a 486 based x86 > processor. After installing GNOME on Lenny, as soon as I launch firefox, > opera or any other relatively intensive application the system comes to a > crawl and becomes slow and sluggish. The system load increase up tp 5, the > CPU usage also shoots up to 25% and things become painfully slow to operate > i.e. become less responsive. > > Is there some kind of min. system requirements for running GNOME? Are there > any tricks to make the system more responsive? Would adding swap help? Right > now my system does not have any swap partition. > > Anybody's input who has expereince running GNOME on a low end system like > this would be helpful. >
If the idea is to see what is possible, OK. But if this is to be a functional computer doing some work, I would suggest booting into the console. Screen will give your multiple work areas, elinks is a great browser, pdmenu reassembles the debian menu items that will work in cli, mutt is the best email client anyway, wicd-curses is great, snownews, mplayer-no-gui, cdcd, mc, iptraff, saidar, ethstatus, terminus fonts, . . . The Debian console is a pretty nice place. There are some programs for framebuffer graphics too. Then you can put your system up against the wall from the console when you feel like it. :-) -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100405064303.ga7...@europa.office
