On Wednesday, September 11, 2019, John M. Harris Jr. <joh...@splentity.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 12:41:14 PM MST Przemek Klosowski via devel > wrote: > > On 9/10/19 7:55 AM, vvs vvs wrote: > > > > > Did I? I thought that I've said that I'm using x86_64 kernel right now > and > > > that I have my memory stretched to the limits already. > > > > > > > > > > > But yes, I've experimented with x86_64 userland some time ago, I don't > > > remember exact numbers but I think that I've lost 100-200 MB of memory. > > > And I have not much time to experiment every time something have > > > changed. > > > > > > > > > > > You are right that I can reduce memory footprint by carefully tuning my > > > system. But that's what I've already did and Fedora breaks it just too > > > often. I'm used to work without GNOME on my other computer that have > only > > > 32-bit CPU. But it started to be very painful to upgrade to newer > Fedora > > > releases. So, when I've got 64-bit computer I've just went with the > flow > > > and don't customize parts I'm not really interested in. I want to spend > > > on it as little time as possible. Going for my own Linux from scratch > is > > > just not viable. > > > > Wait---so you are using 32-bit Gnome on a 64-bit capable CPU running > > 64-bit kernel? If the reason is to save 200MB of memory, you should > > definitely try one of the memory-thrifty desktop environments like xfce. > > > > You also said that you're running a memory-hungry non-Fedora > > application, which you presumably compile yourself. > > > > Therefore, it looks to me that you should try a 64-bit Fedora with a > > memory-saving xfce, install a 32-bit GCC toolchain and compile your app > > in 32-bit mode. > > Compiling his app as 32 bit would require 32 bit repositories for the > libraries he plans on linking. Multilib is still supported so libraries are present in the repositories. > - - > John Harris > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject. > org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists. > fedoraproject.org >
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