From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 26 14:19:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3C4516A4E1 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:19:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kulminaator@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2802043D73 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:19:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kulminaator@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id b36so2766221pyb for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:19:42 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=bMxI7jljcAM01odztg9Ovua/D4v6js0DLppaXpGF3IZDMQ0VlOB+f50ZAgpPPvmNC1E2xLcyKpFjQXhIzMFMF4VCSIpdmR8sUsvEJOP6SEaZgjFg62Ne0dieI8VBeE6Hass7JkUswQQMbd7h9zMYCTZbP8gLXj7c3s9hGphyKCk= Received: by 10.35.117.5 with SMTP id u5mr2160767pym; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:19:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.124.16 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:19:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:19:42 +0200 From: "Martin Roos" To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Making FreeBSD More Lean/Efficient On Older Laptop... X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:19:51 -0000 Hi, 64 megs won't give you all that many options. As stated by the others, gnome has to go. I have used windowmaker and sawfish quite functionally, there was even a dock which could be used along with sawfish (can't remember name by heart, sry) so it was a fully functional desktop without the bloat. Also avoid using firefox, it's consuming far too much ram on the machine, opera may be better or galeon. If you can, avoid everything that is related to gnome or kde, their background apps consume an enormous amount of ram in your case. I run here on 1gb ram and even on me the ram runs really low sometimes (for example acrobat reader can make "wonders" when it comes to memory consumptions). Konsole and Gnome terminal you can forget as well, grab rxvt or anything else alike. Other than that, just get a lot of ram if you can, the cpu speed is not your problem, your bottleneck is the ram and the slow swapping to the slow harddisk. ps. don't forget that X can also show you remote clients, if you can run the heavy weight apps (or even the whole window manager) on another machine, do it. Good Luck, Martin > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:59:28 -0400 > From: "DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI" > Subject: Making FreeBSD More Lean/Efficient On Older Laptop... > To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > All, > > I'm assuming this is the correct forum for this - correct me if I'm > wrong... > > I have FreeBSD 6.1 running on an IBM ThinkPad 600e, 64 MB RAM, PII 366 > MHZ. I have Gnome installed, and would like to "trim the fat" to get it > to run as fast and efficiently as possible. Are there any > pointers/documents that anyone can point out to me that would help? > > Thanks! > > -Dan >