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On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:48:58 +0800 |
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microcai <microcai@×××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> 2012/11/26 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>: |
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> > Am Montag, 26. November 2012, 08:23:44 schrieb William Kenworthy: |
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> >> On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 00:02 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> >> > Am Montag, 26. November 2012, 06:46:28 schrieb William Kenworthy: |
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> >> > > Has anyone tried swap on ssd? - has it killed the drive |
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> >> > > prematurely? - any other effects? |
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> >> > > |
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> >> > > I have a system that is maxed with with 4G ram and tends to |
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> >> > > use swap heavily at times which slows things down ... so I am |
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> >> > > thinking a small ssd might help here. |
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> >> > |
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> >> > you know what helps even more? replacing those 4g with 8g. |
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> >> I would if I could - physical max is 4G ... |
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> > so the 4gb are sitting on the mobo itself? Or are we talking about |
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> > some system from the bronze ages which does not accept sticks |
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> > bigger than 512mb - and you put 8 into it? |
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> > either way, new board+8gb will make you happier than a destroyed |
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> > ssd. |
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> I suggest 16G if you'll buy next year. KDE will eat 2G itself. :) |
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No it won't. |
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The mere fact that you even typed that is absurd. |
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KDE, like most sane software, will use ram intelligently. If you turn |
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on semantic-desktop, akonadi and all the other bells and |
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whistles, it may appear to consume a lot of ram, but that's simply |
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because the software doesn't bother releasing the stuff when there is |
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oddles of it still left unused. Run KDE on a ram-tight machine and you |
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will see it uses nothing like what it uses on this here 16G notebook. |
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top will list krunner with something like 1G in the VIRT column, but |
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that doesn't mean krunner is actually using 1G, it means krunner may |
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*access* huge amounts of data in ram, and that total (here at least) |
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happens to be about 1G. This is because krunner can look at contacts, |
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current time, mail, calendar and $DEITY only knows what else to be able |
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to list them all in a cute plasmoid. It doesn't *use* anything more |
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than what KDE is already addressing, it just happens to be able to see |
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into it. |
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KDE (latest) runs just fine on 512M netbooks thanksverymuch |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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