[Gllug] Memory usage when idle

[NorthLondon John]

Hi,

The story so far: I've installed Debian on an old laptop (266mhz, 
64mb), and performance is abysmally slow. Not expecting blindingly 
fast, ram is the bottleneck (planning on bumping the memory up), but X 
is almost unusably slow.

For the purposes of comparison, I have my Slackware laptop up as well, 
both boxes have x, gnome 2.4 and system monitor running, and nothing 
else

Slackware; used memory 29.6 mb
Debian: used memory 59.0 mb

Slack has one instance of agetty running (memory use; 468k), whilst 
debian has 6 instances of getty (each using 1.5mb)

Slack: Mixer-applet: Slack 7.3mb, Deb 13.8mb.

Background processes and memory usage seem pretty excessive. Where do I 
go from here?

TIA

John

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