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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Size of swap partition during installation Post 302346529 by Leppie on Saturday 22nd of August 2009 06:39:12 PM
Old 08-22-2009
I've installed Debian Lenny on a 800mhz Duron with 160mb RAM and 500mb swap. With Enlightenment as the window manager using Firefox with several tabs open and running some other applications at the same time, RAM usage hardly ever touches 100mb and swap usage can be neglected (less than 10%). After boot with Enlightenment up and running, memory usage is under 40mb. Of course, if you start every daemon at boot and running several memory hungry applications (like firefox, open office, etc.) you may experience poor performance.
I don't know what kind of mySQL development you are planning to do, but my guess is that you should be ok for most development purposes. If your system is getting sluggish I suggest you get more RAM.

Hope this helps

Last edited by Leppie; 08-22-2009 at 08:00 PM..
 

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FIREFOX(1)                                                      Linux User's Manual                                                     FIREFOX(1)

NAME
firefox - a Web browser for X11 derived from the Mozilla browser SYNOPSIS
firefox [OPTIONS] [URL] DESCRIPTION
Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. USAGE
firefox is a simple shell script that will set up the environment for the actual executable. OPTIONS
A summary of the options supported by firefox is included below. GTK options --gdk-debug=FLAGS Gdk debugging flags to set --gdk-no-debug=FLAGS Gdk debugging flags to unset --gtk-debug=FLAGS Gtk+ debugging flags to set --gtk-no-debug=FLAGS Gtk+ debugging flags to unset --gtk-module=MODULE Load an additional Gtk module X11 options --display=DISPLAY X display to use --sync Make X calls synchronous --no-xshm Don't use X shared memory extension --xim-preedit=STYLE --xim-status=STYLE --g-fatal-warnings Make all warnings fatal Firefox options -h, -help Show summary of options. -height value Set height of startup window to value. -width value Set width of startup window to value. -v, -version Print /usr/bin/firefox-bin version. -CreateProfile profile Create profile. -P profile Start with profile. -ProfileManager Start with profile manager. -UILocale lang-region Start with lang-region resources. -contentLocale lang-region Start with lang-region resources. -remote command Execute command in an already running Firefox process. For more info, see: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html -no-remote Don't try to control an already running instance. -jsconsole Start with Javascript Console -chrome url Load the specified chrome. -new-window url Open URL in a new window if Firefox is already running. -new-tab url Open URL in a new tab if Firefox is already running. -preferences Open Firefox preferences menu. -safe-mode Disables extensions and themes for this session. FILES /usr/bin/firefox - shell script wrapping firefox /usr/lib/firefox/firefox - firefox executable VERSION
3.0 BUGS
To report a bug, please visit http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ SEE ALSO
mozilla(1) AUTHORS
The Mozilla Organization http://www.mozilla.org/about.html firefox January 04, 2006 FIREFOX(1)
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