Re: optimizing my debian

2003-02-16 Thread J Q Private
I have run 64MB systems before. 1. Do not use any gnome or kde stuff. sorry, too big! 2. use fluxbox, blacbox, ratpoision for window manager 3. your ps -ef shows many more processes than mine, but I do not recognize some of them. This is what mine shows before I start X I also see the last ti

Re: optimizing my debian

2003-02-09 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Nicolai Langfeldt wrote: 255 root 7 -5 796 616 556 S < 0.0 0.9 0:00 diald 268 root 9 0 736 564 536 S0.0 0.9 0:00 gpm If X is working, gpm is useless. Do you use a modem? If not remove diald. Begone, foul dæmon!!! Gpm is the best thing to happen since slice

Re: optimizing my debian

2003-02-09 Thread Dylan Beaudette
i would STRONGLY recomend more ram at least 128mb.. that has always made my life easier when i go to use X.. also, i would use a different WM... my favorites are fluxbox, blackbox, enlightenment, and icewm... fluxbox is extra fast, and if you can enable 2d acceleration (see past posts on how to d

Re: optimizing my debian

2003-02-08 Thread Nicolai Langfeldt
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 slw. 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

Re: optimizing my debian

2003-02-08 Thread Nathan Ingersoll
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 07:51:54PM +0900, 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 slw. It takes 5 seconds to open a > terminal, and so on. XFCE was not bearable. Not to saw about Gnome or >

Re: optimizing my debian

2003-02-08 Thread Rogério Brito
On Feb 08 2003, raphael wrote: > The trouble is: it's so slow, sooo slw. (...) > Did I forgot to remove some useless processes? You can sure remove a lot of those processes. For instance, do you need NFS and/or NIS? If you don't, I think that you can remove portmaper.

optimizing my debian

2003-02-08 Thread raphael
Hello all, I have a PowerPC, 64 RAM, with woody updated. Icewm as Window Manager. The trouble is: it's so slow, sooo slw. 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!