Thrashing WITHOUT swap.
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Further to that, I followed Alan's lead and installed xfce. My laptop, which was really suffering under Gnome with 64 meg (much more so under KDE) is suddenly light on its feet. Not to mention that it built from source in under 10 minutes and installed with zero 'interesting problems'.
After another year of optimizing the kernel to handle bloatware better, and at the same time encouraging the 'big desktop' side of Linux to follow the lead of these lightweight alternatives[1] we will be looking pretty good.
Had you tried fvwm-1.24r (the original) ? It was designed long ago to be lean and fast on the desktop. I know it whips KDE.