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"le9" Strives To Make Linux Very Usable On Systems With Small Amounts Of RAM
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Originally posted by bple2137 View PostIt's good to hear! I think that amount of memory we use today is absurd. I got a new machine in my job recently and I was like... why would I need 32GB of RAM for Vim, web browser and maybe few VMs?
I saw a sticker with Windows logo on the bottom - oh, I get it
Anyway it's always good to utilize old hardware until it works.
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I wrote a note on running Linux on old PC, the PC with 37 Firefox tabs from the news is mine. The configuration is:- 2 core 64 bit CPU: Intel® Core™2 Duo E4600 (2 cores, 2.4 GHz, late 2007)
- 2 GB of RAM (DDR2 667 MHz, single module)
- 160 GB Hard Disk: Samsung HD161HJ (SATA II, June 2007):
- No discrete graphics card
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Originally posted by HyperDrive View PostI fail to see how this hack is better than setting swappiness to 200 (which biases reclaim heavily towards swap instead of page cache eviction), page-cluster to 0 (no read-ahead), and using zram with zstd compression.
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Linux for PC from 2007
This article describes the installation and configuration process of a modern Linux-based operating system for a weak computer from 2007...
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Originally posted by HyperDrive View PostSo you hit a VM corner case which manifests itself when there's no swap. I use swap on zram on all of my systems (no swap to rust/SSD, ever, even on machines with less than 2 GiB or RAM) and I've never, ever, seen the issue you describe in that email (I've seen oom kills, but hey, resources aren't infinite). To me, the solution is obvious: enable swap. No need to hack the kernel until a proper solution is found.
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Originally posted by ezst036 View Post
There are corporations out there in their 2-3 year refresh cycles beginning to throw computers out to e-waste with 16-32 GB of memory in them.
So in many ways I don't want this wasteful behavior to change. And I am also fairly certain it never will.
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hakavlad , so if I install it via this AUR on my system do I need to do any further configuration? Planning to use it on an 8GB laptop.
i.e. have the XanMod team set the sysctl knobs to sensible values?
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