From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 6 20:13:52 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 0BA19106568F for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 20:13:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B00AA8FC0C for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 20:13:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.198] (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.198]) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6814E5C44; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 06:15:42 +1000 (EST) From: Da Rock To: Kaya Saman In-Reply-To: <4B44DE59.4030200@netscape.net> References: <1262685825.15832.5.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20100106072531.2b0c18b1.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20100106172105.GA95215@comcast.net> <20100106182959.GC95215@comcast.net> <4B44DE59.4030200@netscape.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:13:29 +1000 Message-Id: <1262808809.15832.8.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Charlie Kester , 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 20:13:52 -0000 On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 21:02 +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: > [...] > > > > I don't think we want to hijack this thread or this forum and turn it > > into a debate over which window managers and apps are best. As I > > pointed out in my followup to my original reply, there's already a > > voluminous discussion on those topics. I think we should simply point > > interested readers in that direction and let them make up their own > > minds. > > > [...] > > I am currently using a PIV 2.4GHz with 480MB RAM with fluxbox! > > This works really well, I have firefox and opera browsers installed and > will look at getting my favorite Seamonkey installed too sometime but > isn't a priority as this machine doubles as a DNS, NTP, NFS, and Radio > streaming server :-) > > And I only have a 35GB HD too which is peanuts considering that in my > full-blown network in my other house I have round 3.2TB....... > > So far am only using 80-90MB RAM when X is turned off! With X on it's > round ~125MB that's with running Xterm, Firefox, and Rhythmbox or even > Mplayer. > > In my opinion it's always best to test and try out a few WM's to see > which one fits the bill best, after that it's easy! I'm running icewm - desktop icons are not a priority atm, but I will use idesk later. I think sysctl options will help, as well as reducing my consoles. I'll keep everyone posted and see what happens. Thanks for the pointers guys.