[BUGS] clearing out swap space ..

[Andy Farkas]

Callum Gibson wrote:
> On 07Oct08 23:29, jonathan michaels wrote:
> }   this machine has only 256 mb dram and cannot be upgraded .. no matter what
> }   (hardware limitations- memory controller only understands 128mb dimms)  
> 
> You're probably asking a bit much of it to run a kde desktop in 256MB.
> I don't think those guys know how to write apps for small machines. I
> even wonder about Xorg sometimes...
> 
>     C
> 

My ancient IBM Thinkpad 770X runs fine with only 256MB of RAM. I use xfce4
as a window manager. I find it quite useful.

Its a pity I'm going to have to shut it down this weekend. $WORK requires
a job using a laptop with Windows-98 on Monday, so I have to temporarily
put in another hard drive...


%%%
deepthink> uname -a
FreeBSD deepthink.af.speednet.com.au 6.3-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p3 #0: Sat Aug 30 18:05:06 EST 2008 
root at deepthink.af.speednet.com.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

deepthink> grep memory /var/run/dmesg.boot
real memory  = 268238848 (255 MB)
avail memory = 248762368 (237 MB)

deepthink> swapinfo
Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
/dev/ad0s1b        131072    38424    92648    29%

deepthink> w
  8:10PM  up 40 days,  2:09, 8 users, load averages: 0.14, 0.10, 0.10
USER             TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
andyf            v1       -                31Aug08 40days xinit /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc

%%%


-andyf