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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 XRaTiX View PostI tried ValdikSS Linux Mint ISO in a VM with 2 GB of RAM with a bunch a tabs in the browser,mem-load from nohang-extras and 2 tail /dev/zero and never freezes like my real machine,I see that the clean_min_kbytes and clean_low_kbytes have the sames values as mine.
Do i need to do something else or maybe I doing something wrong? I feel like the le9 patch is not working on my end.
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Originally posted by tedesign View Posthowever I still believe that providing an i386.iso (if technically feasible) to try on 32-bit legacy systems (not just on this one) still has some technical and practical merit, especially in the context of free software.
I've contacted XanMod author to package and maintain at least a single 32 bit XanMod kernel branch (xanmod-lts) but got no reply yet.
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I installed the linux-xanmod-cacule from the AUR and installed in my Manjaro laptop with 8 GB of RAM and 8 GB of ZRAM,I wanted to test how it behave with low memory.
I ran 4Code:while true; do tail /dev/zero; done
Also I ran a node program that consumes 2 GB,open a bunch of apps in my chromium browser and then play GTA 5 (Just to fill out the rest of space),but eventually everything freeze,OOM killer never comes out in time,I need to do ALT + SYSRQ + F to invoke OOM killer and only kills GTA 5 while everything remains intact.
I have clean_min_kbytes 0 and clean_low_kbytes 524288,both defaults to the xanmod kernel and using zram generated with fedora defaults zram-generator configurations
Code:[zram0] zram-fraction = 1.0 max-zram-size = 8192 compression-algorithm = zstd
Do i need to do something else or maybe I doing something wrong? I feel like the le9 patch is not working on my end.
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ValdikSS and hakavlad—
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I registered with phoronix just to post this. I am a near total Linux noob who has been trying to resurrect an old ASUS W3J laptop purchased in 2006 that has a 32 bit intel 945PM chipset that limits the addressable ram. Although there are 2 x 2 GB DDR2 ram modules installed, the system can’t fully use all 4 GB. The RV530 mobility X1600 also allocates some of this ram so that the system has something like 2.8 GB total ram. It has a core2duo T7200 64 bit processor and an IDE 320 GB WD hard drive, so no SSD is possible. I’ve been working on trying out various Linux distributions over the last 3 weeks to replace XP, and they all have had major deficiencies. 32 bit distros don’t allow for the use of modern Firefox, and 64 bit distros use most of the ram very quickly, such that multitasking is not really possible. I happened across ValdikSS’s post and tried out the Mint XFCE 20.2 ISO.
Oh my purple penguins! It’s like a whole new computer! I can open multiple tabs in Firefox, run the system monitor, open LibreOffice, and have media playing without the system grinding to a crashing halt! With Firefox, the most tabs I have opened is around 8, but the system is smooooth. It seems to run like it did with XP ages ago. The only issue with the iso from ValdikSS I have is with the suspend not working when I close the lid, but I think it is an XFCE issue, not an issue with the kernel. Still researching that one.
In short, XanMod with the le9 patch has transformed a machine from 2006 that was usable but unsafe with XP into a comfortably usable and safe computing system with Mint XFCE 20.2. I can’t thank you enough for this. Seriously, this has saved me from having to buy a new laptop, and has given me so much joy in being able to use something that would otherwise go into a landfill. It’s a win for me and a win for the environment.
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ValdikSS, thank you for your kind replies and technical clarification. You might be right about the 900Mhz eeePC being somewhat underpowered by today's standards, however I still believe that providing an i386.iso (if technically feasible) to try on 32-bit legacy systems (not just on this one) still has some technical and practical merit, especially in the context of free software. I would also consider that testing the patch in different architectures would extend its scrutiny and, possibly, its general validity (also good for integration in the mainline advocacy) and I suspect that it could shine even more in that case, given that 32-bit architectures should be less memory hungry and, therefore, make the performance look even better on systems with very low RAM. Some SBCs are still 32-bit and, even though most of them would be headless, they could still be a nice playing ground to test the patch running applications other than browsers.
PS I'm about to try (first in live mode using your ISO) the patched XanMod kernel on my Sandy Bridge I7, but I'm a little bit worried by what you described as the i915 driver bug. I tried to understand the problem on the XanMod forum thread, but there isn't much information on its manifestation and possible mitigation. Could you take a moment to clarify and instruct? Is it safe to switch to XanMod kernel if it shows no problems running the ISO live?
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We are waiting for the patch to be added to zen-kernel https://github.com/zen-kernel/zen-kernel/issues/218
upd: https://github.com/zen-kernel/zen-ke...b99540e3b8ea9bLast edited by hakavlad; 17 July 2021, 03:13 PM.
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Originally posted by 131313 View PostI've installed xanmod kernel (Fedora) for the first time approx a month ago and since then I had 0 xruns with Pipewire (using USB Audio). Sadly kernel 5.14-rc1 didn't fix xruns for me with its reduced USB-Audio driver latency.
Link to the latest version as of today: https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-pp...line/v5.4.132/
And just grab the *.deb's (generic or low-latency) under amd64. I'd be curious if that fixes your problem
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tl;dr use the xanmod kernel!!
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