On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:30:08 -0700 dulsi@identicalsoftware.com wrote:
Already disabled SELinux. Just disabled yum-updatesd. Yum seems to be a much bigger memory hog than before. Firefox + yum update is generally sufficient to bog the system.
I'll try disabling some more services. Just shocks me that even though I use the system the same way, the performance is that much worse. Maybe the memory improvements with firefox 3 will help low memory systems when it comes out.
Dennis Payne dulsi@identicalsoftware.com
It sounds like you're on the right track, sorting 'ps' or 'top' by memory usage and picking off items is where I'd start. I don't know what desktop/window manager you're using (or which Fedora includes, actually), but you have tried a more lightweight alternative? Xfce is one I hear recommended regularly, it's pretty slick. I still won't give up Window Maker no matter how many iterations of hardware I go through. ;) Brian J. Conway