Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joerg Lorenz Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Re: Linux on a small memory PC Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2022 09:09:19 +0200 Message-ID: References: <62c76925@news.ausics.net> <62c8c0b6@news.ausics.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2022 07:09:19 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="1366756"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:fLCY8FiK6EtgqPU6jgXmwg7I2Q4= X-User-ID: eJwFwYEBACAEBMCV6vE0Tsj+I3Rnws1ypVFtbJDsq9JHRqMOXQGXjXovPGevxrvnLgazoOsDFlsQzw== In-Reply-To: Content-Language: fr Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:35000 comp.os.linux.setup:4841 Am 09.07.22 um 07:30 schrieb 25B.Z959: > On 7/8/22 7:41 PM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >> In comp.os.linux.misc The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>> On 08/07/2022 00:15, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >>>> In comp.os.linux.misc The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>>>> On 07/07/2022 12:49, Joerg Lorenz wrote: >>>>>> Xfce would have been even lighter on the machine. >>>>>> >>>>> Please. >>>>> >>>>> I am sick to death at hearing how this or that window manager would have >>>>> used a megabyte of RAM less. >>>> >>>> Your main complaint was about boot time, that's one of the things >>>> that slows up boot time. If you were interested you'd try a >>>> lightweight WM yourself and see how less processing required for >>>> window/menu operations makes performance after start-up seem better >>>> as well. >>>> >>> No, what slows up boot time is disk IO. And to a lesser extent CPU power. >> >> A circular argument if ever I saw one. Were those not limiting >> factors, the WM in use would indeed not matter. As it is, it's >> data to be read off disk and code to be processed, more = longer >> boot time. > > Correct. The QUESTION is "How MUCH longer, real-world ?". Name shifting Troll! -- Gutta cavat lapidem (Ovid)