From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 6 08:04:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B2EF106566C for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:04:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 877688FC0C for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:04:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0684QlD002748; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 00:04:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 00:04:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 00:04:26 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Da Rock Message-ID: <20100106080426.GA65717@thought.org> References: <1262685825.15832.5.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1262685825.15832.5.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, FH_DATE_PAST_20XX autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ethic.thought.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tuning for very little RAM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:04:31 -0000 On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 08:03:45PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now. > > I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is > absolutely hammering the swap. > > I'm trying to set it up as a demo for some skeptics with no money, so I > need email, internet (with plugins), openoffice, acrobat, and wine. > > Aside from all that though, for the academics of it how can I help this > situation? The laptop has around 100MB RAM, with 16k free, and has a new > install of FreeBSD 8.0. > > Cheers > It's late here so I'm pretty much doing this ad hoc, but I think you should renice the least important apps. Your mail MUA/MTA can be set to very low prio, for instance. If this is an ongoing demo, bring up and leave up OOo and have it set a it higher than your email. wine: don't know. Your broswer should be set very high. gary PS: About three years back I ran a 1998 HP deskyop with less than 512M with full KDE. It was slow is some things, but perfectly adaquate so long as I didn't try everything at once! > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php