[Wlug] Fedora Disapointment

[dulsi at identicalsoftware.com]

Quoting Frank Sweetser <fs at WPI.EDU>:

> 256M isn't a lot of memory these days, but I'm running a handful of virtual
> machines with only 256M and they work well enough.  You might try to  
>  check out
> what's running on your system, and prune out extra daemons and the like that
> you don't need.  Use the chkconfig and ntsysv commands to manage   
> what services
> are started up.

Already disabled SELinux.  Just disabled yum-updatesd.  Yum seems to  
be a much bigger memory hog than before.  Firefox + yum update is  
generally sufficient to bog the system.

I'll try disabling some more services.  Just shocks me that even  
though I use the system the same way, the performance is that much  
worse.  Maybe the memory improvements with firefox 3 will help low  
memory systems when it comes out.

Dennis Payne
dulsi at identicalsoftware.com