[Gllug] Memory usage when idle

John Hearns john.hearns at clustervision.com
Wed May 5 11:44:04 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 12:33, NorthLondon John wrote:
> 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 X part, try a lightweight window manager, such as iceWM

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