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What does more memory mean to Debian?
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| Frederick Wilson 2005-11-29, 7:47 am |
| Hello,
I finally have Debian 3 up and running on an old PII laptop with 64M of
RAM. It is so painfully slow!
If I up it to its max of 256M will this show a marked improvement.
All I really do with it is web surfing, email and an occasional document
or two.
Later I might play around with Samba and try to figure that out.
What are your thoughts?
Thanks,
Fred
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| Philipp Pagel 2005-11-29, 5:50 pm |
| Frederick Wilson <faNOTTHISwilson@comcast.net> wrote:
> I finally have Debian 3 up and running on an old PII laptop with 64M of
> RAM. It is so painfully slow!
> If I up it to its max of 256M will this show a marked improvement.
> All I really do with it is web surfing, email and an occasional document
> or two.
For most interactive work (especially for X11), adding memory
significantly improves performance. 64M is really low for GUI work and
so I highly recommend a memory upgrade.
cu
Philipp
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| Frederick Wilson 2005-11-30, 8:46 pm |
| Philipp Pagel wrote:
> Frederick Wilson <faNOTTHISwilson@comcast.net> wrote:
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> For most interactive work (especially for X11), adding memory
> significantly improves performance. 64M is really low for GUI work and
> so I highly recommend a memory upgrade.
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> cu
> Philipp
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MAN,
This is a night and day difference. I got 256 to work and it has made
this computer really usable. I guess the next logical question is,
should I resize my swap directory to be 2 times the size of the memory?
If so, how?
Thanks,
Fred
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| Bill Marcum 2005-11-30, 8:46 pm |
| On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:00:47 -0500, Frederick Wilson
<fawilson@NOcomcastSPAM.net> wrote:
> MAN,
>
> This is a night and day difference. I got 256 to work and it has made
> this computer really usable. I guess the next logical question is,
> should I resize my swap directory to be 2 times the size of the memory?
>
> If so, how?
>
Swap directory? You probably mean swap partition. You can use parted
or gpart, or create a swap file:
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=256 of=/swapfile
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile
and then you can add a line to /etc/fstab:
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0
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| Robert Wolfe 2005-12-02, 2:47 am |
| More memory means the same to Debian as it does with any other OS.
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On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Frederick Wilson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I finally have Debian 3 up and running on an old PII laptop with 64M of RAM.
> It is so painfully slow!
>
> If I up it to its max of 256M will this show a marked improvement.
>
> All I really do with it is web surfing, email and an occasional document or
> two.
>
> Later I might play around with Samba and try to figure that out.
>
> What are your thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Fred
>
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