Hi, I notice with every system that over time it does end up taking more resources. Naturally, I don’t like that, so I try the following things: Prevent bloat: I really hate bloat and I figure my strategy of avoiding it also helps keep resource usage lower. I keep things under 1000 packages on A…

But that G5 tower is so beautiful. All brushed aluminum. I was recently going to install a BSD on it, but a capacitor blew on boot (I hadn’t turned it on in quite a while). I noticed several other capacitors were bulging and/or leaking, so I’ve stripped it out and plan to stick a Raspberry Pi in it…

[image] jonathon: I set up zswap It needs still a swap device to function. Doesn’t it? Zram doesn’t as far as I remember.

Yup, that’s the difference according to the Arch wiki. I have a swap device, so I set up zswap. :wink:

Nah that was me lol. My father bought an imac 23" with all the bells and whistles. He begged me to build him a pc and take it away a week later lol.

[image] anon53396576: My father bought an imac 23" with all the bells and whistles. He begged me to build him a pc and take it away a week later lol. Yeah yeah, you keep telling yourself that! :laughing: ▶ humor which seems too offensive Well, unless you’d need some brushed aluminum adblocke…

One day I’ll spend 2000 on a nice laptop or 1000 on a nice desktop. Maybe both. I’ve been helping the wife pay off some debt of hers and I’ll definitely be looking at a couple of nice toys after that. That’s maybe two years away.

I was averse to the Mac for a long time. We already used Macs at the company, but he wasn’t at home. Then over two years ago, I was also seduced and bought a Macbook Air. It is very well put together and massive, I use it as a test machine. And its battery is really excellent. Needless to say, I pur…

So… ummm… “How do you keep resource usage low?” I hear this post ask. The truth is a GNOME user I don’t. As soon as I experience even a slight hint of unresponsiveness in my daily computing tasks I take a deep breath, reach in my back pocket to grab my wallet, and open it up to see if I can sell any…

[image] keybreak: some rich gay celebrity This is offensive – Mod pls remove it.

zswap https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Zswap systemd-swap https://github.com/Nefelim4ag/systemd-swap/blob/master/README.md zram https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Improving_performance#Zram_or_zswap

How Do You Keep Resource Usage Low?

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware

Bryanpwo August 9, 2020, 8:49am 98