Reducing ram used by Puppy

Moderator: Forum moderators

Post Reply
User avatar
wizard
Posts: 1907
Joined: Sun Aug 09, 2020 7:50 pm
Has thanked: 2569 times
Been thanked: 639 times

Reducing ram used by Puppy

Post by wizard »

Reducing ram used by Puppy

Computers using Grub4Dos as the boot loader.
Use Geany editor.
-open the file: menu.lst
-find: pfix=fsck
-replace with: pfix=nocopy,fsck
Note: nocopy and fsck are separated by a comma and no spaces
-save

Computers using Grub2 as the boot loader.
Use Geany editor.
-open the file: grub.cfg
-find: pfix=fsck
-replace with: pfix=nocopy,fsck
Note: nocopy and fsck are separated by a comma and no spaces
-save

In addition to reducing ram use, you will also see a slightly faster boot speed.

wizard

Last edited by wizard on Tue Oct 22, 2024 10:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Big pile of OLD computers

User avatar
wizard
Posts: 1907
Joined: Sun Aug 09, 2020 7:50 pm
Has thanked: 2569 times
Been thanked: 639 times

Re: Reducing ram used by Puppy

Post by wizard »

@JusGellin

Don't know for KL, hopefully one of the expert users can will reply.

wizard

Big pile of OLD computers

User avatar
bigpup
Moderator
Posts: 6907
Joined: Tue Jul 14, 2020 11:19 pm
Location: Earth, South Eastern U.S.
Has thanked: 889 times
Been thanked: 1498 times

Re: Reducing ram used by Puppy

Post by bigpup »

Only an option in the mainline Puppy distros.

The things you do not tell us, are usually the clue to fixing the problem.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be older.
This is not what I expected :o

Post Reply

Return to “32 Bit”