Observations

[Neben Kabon]

It appears so...

http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=fluxbox+ppc

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 09:50, S.M.Kelly wrote:
> Any PPC binaries for FluxBox?  I'm interested, but haven't done any of
> my own compiling yet.  Thanks for the rest of your info!
> 
> SMK
> 
> On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 09:20, Ben Hall wrote:
> 
> > S.M.Kelly wrote:
> > 
> > > First, my CPU fan seems to run almost constantly.  My CPU is usually 
> > > fairly idle and doesn't seem to be running many active threads. This 
> > > makes battery life horrible.
> > 
> > 
> > I have an iBook 700, I've also noticed that Linux runs hotter (and thus 
> > louder) than OSX (or XP on an Intel laptop.)  There are many reasons for 
> > this.  For starters, the HD doesn't spin down nearly as much.  To fix 
> > this you can do several things:
> > 
> > - Install bdflush
> > - Fiddle with hdparm to set the sleep delay
> > - Use Ext2 or at least set the write times for the Ext3 journal for 
> > something quite large
> > - Disable any unneeded daemons (such as, I would argue, the cron and at 
> > scripts.)
> > 
> > I suppose throttling the CPU back would help battery life qute a bit.  
> > I'm not sure how this is done, but know it's possible.
> > 
> > Linux runs a lot of stuff in the background, any of these can wake up 
> > the HD.  With a lot of care, power management in Linux can be pretty 
> > much what it is on OSX or XP, but it takes a lot of fiddling.  FWIW, 
> > I've found the PM stuff for Apple HW to be lightyears ahead of the PM 
> > for Intel HW, it's one of the reasons I like the iBook so much as a 
> > Linux box.
> > 
> > > Second, Gnome uses a lot of RAM!  As I use Gnome, I see my RAM usage 
> > > steadily creeping up until it gets to nearly 95% of usage. (remember, 
> > > I have 512mb!)  When I use KDE, it stays around 30-40% usage.  I use 
> > > the same applications most of the day. (Xmms, Evolution, OOo, primarily)
> > 
> > 
> > Hmmm.. big surprise!  Yeah, probably just memory leaks/buggy software.  
> > Have you tried something lighter like FluxBox or XFce?  They are very 
> > useable, stable and make Gnome and KDE feel like dogs.  It's hard to 
> > kick FluxBox's tabs once you get used to them.
> > 
> > > Third, I NEVER have seen my 512mb swap file being used.  Does the swap 
> > > file only get used when your physical RAM is maxed?
> > 
> > 
> > Yup, this is normal.  It's also quite normal for Linux to always use up 
> > as much RAM as possible, it's just sitting there, so they might as well.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
> > 
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> S.M.Kelly
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