Re: contest proposal
Russell Coker via linux-aus <[email protected]>
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On Saturday, 6 January 2024 09:29:11 AEDT Info via linux-aus wrote: > "exit without calling free() so that paged out memory doesn't get paged in > before exit" Memory in use will not be paged out and if it is freed > immediately after use, there is no paging problem. Memory that is only used for initialisation or used for features of the program that are not selected is very common. > On one Linux, I found the Bluetooth icon on the tool bar used 15 MB. > Switching off Bluetooth using the icon did not free up memory. I deleted > the whole of Bluetooth as it was not needed. There must be a way to have > the on/off option use less than a megabyte and only load all the settings > windows etc if the option is on. One would hope that if you turned off Bluetooth in hardware settings the system would detect that and shut down the applet. I think that systemd is heading in that direction. If you do a Mobian install on a PinePhonePro with Plasma Mobile then all the KDE stuff is started as Systemd units, but this doesn't happen with the desktop version of KDE on Debian/Unstable. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ linux-aus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to linux-aus-unsubscribe-cunTk1MwBs8iFSDQTTA3OBCuuivNXqWP@public.gmane.org