Custom Kernel How Much RAM?

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4 total messages Started by Rule of Life Sun, 17 Jun 2012 13:53

#514

Author: Rule of Life
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 13:53

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Hi Linux Gurus and consultants,my question is,

I have a P4 2ghz 32bit with 128 mb of ram.

I have installed Debian Squeeze for x86

The machine is barly usable in GUI modes with even xface running it is
usless,

Now I dont need a GUI as I have configured the box to use some Linux/
Unix greats apline for mail and rtorrent for downloading,but would
like to use a gui.

Will creating a custom kernel free up RAM for the GUI's or dont i have
enough?
how small can a custom kernel be?
I remember when i did LFS that the first kernel i made was enough to
crash everyone of my computers in memory at boot time,Is kernel RAM
freed once the machine is running or dose it remain in memory ?

Will a custom kernel solve my problem,?surely 128 mb is enough ram to
do something ,im sure NT workstation would love this 2 ghz processor !

Thanks for advise

Re: Custom Kernel How Much RAM?

#516

Author: terryc
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 16:57

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On 17/06/12 23:53, Rule of Life wrote:
> Hi Linux Gurus and consultants,my question is,
>
> I have a P4 2ghz 32bit with 128 mb of ram.
>
> I have installed Debian Squeeze for x86

Frankly, exactly what processes are running?
IME, if you follow the defalt Debian install, you can still through out 
a pile of processes, like dbus, etc.
>
> The machine is barly usable in GUI modes with even xface running it is
> usless,
>
> Now I dont need a GUI as I have configured the box to use some Linux/
> Unix greats apline for mail and rtorrent for downloading,but would
> like to use a gui.

Tried tvwm? (I actually ave a 96Mb system that runs tvwm as the 
gui(slow, bt workable), but is isn't Debian squeeze.

Or Fvwm? maybe icwm-lite

Re: Custom Kernel How Much RAM?

#517

Author: What's in a Name?
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 01:54

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On 06/17/2012 09:53 AM, Rule of Life wrote:

> I have a P4 2ghz 32bit with 128 mb of ram.

add more ram
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Re: Custom Kernel How Much RAM?

#519

Author: Rockinghorse Winner
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 17:04

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* It may have been the liquor talking, but 
What's in a Name? <invalid@invalid.net> wrote:

> On 06/17/2012 09:53 AM, Rule of Life wrote:
>
>> I have a P4 2ghz 32bit with 128 mb of ram.
>
> add more ram
> -- 
> #393236
>
>

Yah, the cpu is fast enough, more than fast enough, but 128 is nothing. It's
constantly having to use the Swap partition, because it runs out of memory.
Memory is cheap. You should have at least 512MB but 1 Gig is better (2 if
you're going to use KDE). YMMV.

Terry
-- 
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And dance upon the mountains like a flame."  |/
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