I understand that my laptop is old. Every time I've upgraded Red Hat/Fedora, I've liked the new system until Fedora 8. I didn't always upgrade. I skipped Fedora 7 since the live CD didn't boot on my laptop but Fedora 6 ran great. Fedora 8 is a dog with my small amount of memory (256M). I'm thinking I'll buy more memory but it disappoints me that Fedora runs poorly with 256M. (I would buy a new laptop but I'm just not impressed with the current offerings.) Dennis Payne dulsi@identicalsoftware.com
dulsi@identicalsoftware.com wrote:
I understand that my laptop is old. Every time I've upgraded Red Hat/Fedora, I've liked the new system until Fedora 8. I didn't always upgrade. I skipped Fedora 7 since the live CD didn't boot on my laptop but Fedora 6 ran great. Fedora 8 is a dog with my small amount of memory (256M). I'm thinking I'll buy more memory but it disappoints me that Fedora runs poorly with 256M. (I would buy a new laptop but I'm just not impressed with the current offerings.)
256M isn't a lot of memory these days, but I'm running a handful of virtual machines with only 256M and they work well enough. You might try to check out what's running on your system, and prune out extra daemons and the like that you don't need. Use the chkconfig and ntsysv commands to manage what services are started up. Also, you may want to try disabling the SELinux security extensions. Edit /etc/sysconfig/selinux , make sure the SELINUX variable is set to disabled, reboot, and see if that helps. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC
Quoting Frank Sweetser
256M isn't a lot of memory these days, but I'm running a handful of virtual machines with only 256M and they work well enough. You might try to check out what's running on your system, and prune out extra daemons and the like that you don't need. Use the chkconfig and ntsysv commands to manage what services are started up.
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
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
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