On 09/17/2017 06:05 PM, Jeff Backus wrote:
Speaking of which, are you running X on your PIII?
Yes, but I
rarely use this machine at all and less so with a WM.
ATM, its main use-case is testing SW and it hosting my last pair of
floppies ;).
If I am using it, in most cases, I boot it into a login manager
(currently lightdm) and ssh into it and am not using a WM.
If so, what WM are
you using and how well does it run?
I have been using Xfce/xfwm4, which used to
work sufficiently well for
"very light" occasional use-cases. However memory demands apparently
have gradually grown over the years, which render using Xfce into
"constant swapping".
Furthermore, in recent times, the primary problem on this machine has
been all Fedora-26 kernels >= 4.10 are exposing "hard lockups",
apparently being related to networking[1].
Another set of problems, which is around for quite a while on this
machine is apic problems (ATM, I am using pci=noapic).
Ralf
[1]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482561
For the moment, I resorted to using kernel-4.9.14-200.fc25.i686 with
FC26 ontop.