> > On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:50:32 -0400, Stefan Monnier posted: > > > FWIW, I find that running Lenny on a 64MB machine is bearable but slowish, > > > and Etch was already "too slow" on a 32MB machine. So make sure you have > > > enough RAM. > > > For very simple uses, it works with less RAM, but as soon as you need to > > > "apt-get install" or "apt-get upgrade" the memory limit becomes severe.
Yeah. You may have to shut every unnecessary process down just to run "aptitude update". But Lenny isn't too bad. I installed Lenny on a 64MB box a while back, and first it appeared almost unusable, but after a bit of tweaking it's now running happily as a DNS server and mail relay. The biggest memory hog was rsyslogd, but it's memory footprint shrunk from about 28MB down to 4MB simply by adding 'ulimit -s 128' to /etc/default/rsyslog. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org