putting fedora on a (memory) diet... some suggestions for the kernel config

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 11:56 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Looking at kernel memory use (based on 2.6.19 with a fedora config),
> there's some not that hard ways to gain quite a bit of memory back.

The kernel is far from the worst offender though:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 5253 dwmw2     15   0 1291m 772m  41m S   17 31.3 887:51.74 evolution   
 3104 root      15   0  325m 133m  16m S    6  5.4   3492:19 Xorg               
13295 dwmw2     16   0  257m 133m  21m S    2  5.4  57:30.49 gnome-terminal     
30028 dwmw2     15   0  242m 118m  12m S    2  4.8 757:49.44 gnome-terminal     
23011 dwmw2     15   0  281m  93m  38m S    2  3.8   7:24.88 firefox-bin  

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