19 Sep
2016
19 Sep
'16
11:05 a.m.
On 09/19/2016 12:38 PM, mike.valk@gmail.com wrote:
Still on low speed machines try to avoid swap to any medium. All will get very slow; I/O contention. Memory usually has it's separate/private bus/tracs/connection. The rest, Network, Sata, USB, GPIO, SPI etc. shares a common bus.
Swap should be avoided as Lkcl said, but a crash may be worse than waiting for swap. Web, LaTeX, GNOME Builder usage can be expensive. Well, I’ll see.
So keep away from high profile desktops/compositors like Gnome and KDE on low memory systems.
GNOME isn’t that bad. Of course LXDE uses less memory, but not by much. The choice of Web browser seems much more important.