Low RAM
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Tips & Tricks for LOW RAM systems
The pourpose of this page is th gather useful information about low RAM DSL systems.
The rationale is that, being DSL's main feature its small size, it becomes an obvious choice for low RAM systems. You might find here informations technically not DSL-related, but still relevant as stated in the previous rationale.
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General RAM usage information
- Here's an IBM's article containing useful ideas, information, methods and data on messuring and reducing GNU/linux RAM footprint.
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Thin clients
This wiki is about DSL and DSL is ment for stand alone machines. They usually might be networked, but they still remain stand alone computers. Using resource-shortened computers as thin clients of more powerful desktop servers is indeed a very good choice, but it won't be handeled here. Please, search the [www.wikipedia.org wikipedia] or any web search engine for keywords like thin client, LTSP, PXES, TCOS, a.s.o.
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Other pending topics (to be included)
- RAM usage by applications (consumptions best measured under DSL)
- RAM usage by different DSL-extention types (information already available on this wiki, just need to link it here)
- Usage of RAM by DSL under different configurations (cheatcodes, boot tweeks, ...) and conditions.
