On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:14 AM, phanisvara das <phani00@gmail.com> 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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org