Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

[Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 09 January 2009 03:57:09 Larry Stotler wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Rob OpenSuSE
>
> <rob.opensuse.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Why?  With KDE4 plus Firefox 512MB RAM was perfectly adequate in my
> > testing.  In fact it is very hard to get the VM to use swap space at
> > all, without increasing the default value of "swapiness"; which I
> > think shows the default is poorly chosen.
>
> Agreed.  Those who make comments like that evidently don't have an
> older system, or if they do, don't use it.  I regularly run on older
> hardware with few issue.  Granted, it's not as fast as my 64bit
> machines, but why should I spend $$ I don't have to upgrade?  The
> economy is not that great now, and it can be more expensive to upgrade
> an older system than a newer one.
>
> > There's no reason to tell ppl to not use old machines, just because
> > you'ld not spec out such a machine for desktop.  256MB RAM is plenty
> > for many SOHO server applications.
>
> I run a server with 128MB.  It don't need much to just serve up files.

I hope you've sent your hardware profile via smolt. I'm pretty sure the 
numbers there are the one people will look at when thinking about where to put 
the optimization efforts:

http://smolts.org/static/stats/stats.html

Stano


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