I obtained the numbers below after my problems updating openSUSE 12.3 were resolved,
as can be seen from the thread
https://forums.opensuse.org/english/...se-12-3-a.html
on the same forum.
But I thought that this could be useful at least for guys like me that are trying to install/run openSUSE 12.3 on an old PC with limited amounts of RAM.
So I thought that it might be a good idea to make a separate post of the following.
The output given below results from commands like
'free > xyz.txt'
entered in a console window, mostly XTerm, which seems to consume only little memory,
where xyz is some arbitrary filename.
Using this method, directly after starting up IceWM I get
After starting KWrite (of KDE4) and Konqueror (of KDE4) still running IceWM I instead get
Freshly booting into KDE3 desktop I get
However, to get these quite low numbers for memory consumption, running KDE3 one has to install a bit more than just 'kdebase3-session' in order to (hopefully) prevent to get any KDE4 components loaded silently.
Freshly booting into KDE4 desktop I get
Then with:
KDE4
+ Dolphin
+ Konsole (instead of XTerm)
+ YaST Control Center
+ YaST Software Management
I get
This was about the situation in which my online updates failed.
Starting up into IceWM and running YaST from there, as suggested by wolfi323 in the thread mentionned above,
the updates (as well as installations of other software) run fine.
as can be seen from the thread
https://forums.opensuse.org/english/...se-12-3-a.html
on the same forum.
But I thought that this could be useful at least for guys like me that are trying to install/run openSUSE 12.3 on an old PC with limited amounts of RAM.
So I thought that it might be a good idea to make a separate post of the following.
The output given below results from commands like
'free > xyz.txt'
entered in a console window, mostly XTerm, which seems to consume only little memory,
where xyz is some arbitrary filename.
Using this method, directly after starting up IceWM I get
Code:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 508888 217136 291752 0 26960 147364
-/+ buffers/cache: 42812 466076
Swap: 2094076 0 2094076Code:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 508888 360492 148396 0 35924 223348
-/+ buffers/cache: 101220 407668
Swap: 2094076 0 2094076Code:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 508888 364548 144340 0 32164 235132
-/+ buffers/cache: 97252 411636
Swap: 2094076 0 2094076Freshly booting into KDE4 desktop I get
Code:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 508888 451176 57712 0 13536 221856
-/+ buffers/cache: 215784 293104
Swap: 2094076 5028 2089048KDE4
+ Dolphin
+ Konsole (instead of XTerm)
+ YaST Control Center
+ YaST Software Management
I get
Code:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 508888 493064 15824 0 7172 167692
-/+ buffers/cache: 318200 190688
Swap: 2094076 8644 2085432Starting up into IceWM and running YaST from there, as suggested by wolfi323 in the thread mentionned above,
the updates (as well as installations of other software) run fine.