On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Mike Hurley wrote:
> How do I go about freeing up memory? My machine has
> 20Mb RAM and is running Caldera's OpenLinux 2.3 with
> kernel 2.2.10.
Ouch! A box can *run* with KDE on 20 megs of ram?! :)
IMHO, with 20 MB of ram, your best bet is to just not run X
alltogether. If you want to run X, use (in order of memory lightness)
fvwm, fvwm2 or . I strongly
would not suggest running KDE, Gnome or Netscape, as they are geared for
the more memory laden machines of today. Use "lynx" for web surfing, "cdp"
to use your CDROM (if any), and "aumix" for a text based mixer. "Rxvt" is
supposedly lighter on memory usage than "xterm" is, as far as X terminals
go.
> Also, I load linux with LOADLIN because I have to load
> a DOS Driver to use my sound card, can I free up the
> memory that DOS uses?, or is that done automatically
All traces of DOS are gone once you start booting the Linux
kernel; thus, DOS isn't using any sort of memory once you're into
linux.
> at bootup? I've already tried limiting the number of
> virtual consoles in my 'inittab,' but that didn't
> help. Would disabling some deamons help a lot?
Limiting VC's would be another option which I would have proposed.
The final option would be to disable all of the daemons which you don't
use. These should clear up primarily swap space (as many of the daemons
are unused anyhow and get swapped out), but, should give you a little
usable ram also.
If you really want to see what your biggest culprits are for
memory usage, run "top" and see which ones rank highest in the "%MEM"
category.
- Mike
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