I haven't used it myself, but I've heard icewm recommended. I would not
recommend KDE or GNOME with anything less than 32MB unless you've got a
system going that can swap really, really fast. I either go X-less or
fvwm2.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Kachline [mailto:">kachline@medept17.coon.gatech.edu]
> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 7:45 PM
> To: Mike Hurley
> Cc: ALE Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [ale] freeing up memory
>
>
> 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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