Re: [OT] Re: Thrashing WITHOUT swap.

2001-06-26 Thread john slee
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 06:32:16PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Monday 25 June 2001 18:16, Colonel wrote: > > Had you tried fvwm-1.24r (the original) ? It was designed long ago to > > be lean and fast on the desktop. I know it whips KDE. > > Yes, I did. It's even faster than xfce but the

Re: [OT] Re: Thrashing WITHOUT swap.

2001-06-25 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Monday 25 June 2001 18:16, Colonel wrote: > In clouddancer.list.kernel, you wrote: > >Further to that, I followed Alan's lead and installed xfce. My laptop, > > which was really suffering under Gnome with 64 meg (much more so under > > KDE) is suddenly light on its feet. Not to mention that i

Re: [OT] Re: Thrashing WITHOUT swap.

2001-06-25 Thread Colonel
In clouddancer.list.kernel, you wrote: > >Further to that, I followed Alan's lead and installed xfce. My laptop, which >was really suffering under Gnome with 64 meg (much more so under KDE) is >suddenly light on its feet. Not to mention that it built from source in >under 10 minutes and insta

[OT] Re: Thrashing WITHOUT swap.

2001-06-25 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Monday 25 June 2001 11:21, Helge Hafting wrote: > If it still is too slow - add RAM or run fewer/smaller apps. > Opera is a low-memory alternative to netscape. Avoiding > gnome/kde apps when plain X apps are available is also a good idea > when you're short on memory. Using low resolution and