[Wlug] Fedora Disapointment

[Brian J. Conway]

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:30:08 -0700
dulsi at identicalsoftware.com wrote:

> 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

It sounds like you're on the right track, sorting 'ps' or 'top' by memory
usage and picking off items is where I'd start.

I don't know what desktop/window manager you're using (or which Fedora
includes, actually), but you have tried a more lightweight alternative?
Xfce is one I hear recommended regularly, it's pretty slick.  I still
won't give up Window Maker no matter how many iterations of hardware I go
through. ;)

Brian J. Conway