Hello,
I've recently made the move from Gentoo to Kubuntu. All went well, no
special problems; but when I restarted the system after the install
completed, I had a little bit of a shock: gkrellm shows 51% of my 256MB
RAM is used - without doing much! This is about twice what my gentoo
system utilized with roughly the same processes running.
I've tried the usual stuff to reduce memory consumption: I went through
the list of services (not much to change, Kubuntu runs very little by
default), I've reduced the number of gettys and replaced them with
fgetty, even though I knew the effect is negligible.
df showed two tmpfs systems, one of them containing kernel modules I
don't use - I umounted both with no (or little) effect on memory
consumption.
My last idea was to try to recompile some of the base system for my own
needs. I started out with xorg-common deb-src, but after a lot of
fighting, hacking on dpkg-architecture and rules files I learned that
deb-src is no ebuild - I need to know exactly what and where to change
stuff - and even so, it seems that large packages set their own CFLAGS
without considering my point of view.
What I'm asking is:
1. Is there a better way (or a good howto, as I couldn't find one
myself) to compile the base system with -march=pentium4 or at least i686?
2. Ways to optimize memory consumption without compiling stuff?
I'd really like to go back to the 'swap is for Windows users' days, as I
don't see any memory upgrade comming soon.
Thanks.
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