On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Matt Sealey
On a 128MB system it gets there pretty fast; on 10.3 we had ~40MB space left (which was then soaked by buffers and caches as is good to do). However loading anything else in started really going at the page file. On a slow disk this is an absolute nightmare.
Memory usage was much lower on the 10.x system from my experience as well.
On demand is definitely a good way to go for anything, as it reduces memory requirements up to the point something needs to be done. If you do not have enough memory to do it at that point, then tough luck.. time to buy new RAM. But if you never use it (Avahi for example, I have no mDNS-compatible devices here) and never go to a share browser or go to print a file, it shouldn't even be loaded.. the moment I do get one of these lovely little printers or a Mac sitting here, I want to be able to use it. Having the stuff on disk is great, loading it at boot and soaking xMB of memory until that point, is wasteful.
Agreed. However, since openSUSE is one of those kitchen sink thrown in distros, they have to balance it. I wish that SLICK had panned out. I've looked at SUSE Studio, but since it's still in alpha, you can't get much access to it yet. And, it seems to only have i386 support right now. What I need that for is PPC more than anything else. I have a Powerbook 3400c that maxes at 144MB RAM and a PowerMac 6500 that maxes at 128MB. I don't expect to run a full desktop like KDE or Gnome on them, but it would be nice to be able to run a basic like TinyWM and Firefox. In that case, you don't need much other than the services to start the system, and networking for wired or wireless. I can actually go online with my Thinkpad 380XD P/233/96MB RAM(Maxed out) with Win2k. It's not fast to say the least but it works. That's with FF 2.x. Haven't tired 3.x. And that's with a USB wireless adapter. Of course, I can do more if I use Damn Small Linux and don't expect to run a full modern desktop on hardware that old, but it would be interesting to see how usable such old machines can be. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org