From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 6 12:25:34 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 601B31065756 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:25:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 300D48FC18 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:25:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (pr40.pitbpa0.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E244AF7419; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 07:25:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 07:25:31 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: Da Rock Message-Id: <20100106072531.2b0c18b1.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <1262685825.15832.5.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <1262685825.15832.5.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> Organization: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.18.5; i386-portbld-freebsd7.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 12:25:34 -0000 In response to Da Rock : > 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. The most obvious thing to do is reduce the number of running programs. Go through /etc/ttys, for example, and disable all but one or two consoles, and edit /etc/rc.conf to disable anything that you don't need on the system (possible sendmail, syslog?, etc) -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/