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Topic: 2.1b fluxbox takes 3 days to load

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Posted: Jan. 30 2006,16:02

I am using an old PI 166 with 16mb ram. When i used DSL 1.8 it ran awesome. Now i upgraded to 2.1b and even tried 2.2rc1 but it now takes 3 days to load Fluxbox. Any ideas? I am using the exact same settings as before:
fb800x600 with the fbdev for older laptops, no usb mouse but the other one. Thanks in advance!

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Posted: Jan. 30 2006,16:46

I have no idea what would cause that kind of slowdown with fluxbox. Unfortunately, it's hard to find what changed, since there was never a 1.8 release - the versions went from 1.5 to 2.0.

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Posted: Jan. 30 2006,17:06

maybe it was 1.1 or 0.8 then. Can't remember for sure, I did a HD install of the older version

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Posted: Jan. 30 2006,17:12

it was 1.5, just found the ISO on my windows box

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Posted: Jan. 30 2006,18:50

Hyperbole really doesn't help when trying to find a solution...when you say "3 days" i assume you mean "several seconds", or "a minute or longer"?

You say you had a harddrive install before. Was it traditonal debian style? How are you using the newer version?

My guess is the problem comes from the 16mb. When using a traditional harddrive install, you are using much less ram because the whole system runs from the harddrive. With a liveCD or frugal, part of the system is loaded into RAM, and then when you load up applications (particularly gui apps), you use even more ram. Anything which would be written to disk (temp files, personal configs, etc) is instead loaded into RAM. 16mb can get filled very quickly.

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