Re: Low memory hacks

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 21:59 +0300, Nickolay V. Shmyrev wrote:
> Hello all
> 
> Nowadays it's rather hard to work with GNOME swapping on my 256 Mb
> laptop even if I don't run anything serious on it, just Evolution,
> Pidgin and Epiphany and sometimes Evince. Recently I decided to look on
> this problem a bit and the nice thing I discovered is an Evolution
> hack. 
> 
> It seems that if you don't use calendar you can just remove bonobo
> server files for GNOME_Evolution_Calendar_2.10.server and you'll get
> much faster Evolution and a lot of free memory.
> 
> I added this and some more hacks I'm using to the page:
> 
> http://live.gnome.org/MemoryReduction/LowMemoryHacks
> 
> Please if you know any other thing that can reduce memory usage with a
> little reduction of functionality share it with us.

Nice and all, but please make sure each issue is also reported in
bugzilla, so it's eventually fixed correctly.

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