Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (594 mails)

[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:14 AM, phanisvara das <phani00@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 September 2009 07:16:13 pm Larry Stotler wrote:
> > I can't even run 11.0 with a GUI on a Powerbook G3/266 with 512MB RAM.
> >  It's way too slow.  However, a G4/466 runs it just fine.
>
> what's driving up the hardware requirement: operating system or desktop
> environment?

Desktop. firefox is a particularly bad offender.

I rebooted my desktop yesterday, and top shows my top few ram users to be:

(These are the standard top columns of:)

VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND

822m 213m  30m S   29 10.7  25:42.92 firefox
652m 208m 5904 S   16 10.5  22:13.78 Xorg
611m  55m  29m S    1  2.8   0:23.40 plasma-desktop
726m  50m  29m S    0  2.5   0:06.21 krunner

I have 2 GB on this box now.  I used to have only 1GB and it was
always short of ram.  ie. It was noticeably slower.
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