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- From: nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: NetBSD Hopeful
- Date: 26 Feb 1996 11:57:24 -0000
- Organization: University of Strathclyde
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- Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de> wrote:
- >
- >You can't? Just try to compile a large file with "gcc" running an
- >advanced X11 session (e.g. 1152x900x256, CTWM, 2 X-Terms and some
- >other clients) and watch the usage of the swap partition.
-
- Well, I did say "Unless you have some serious demands", but what you describe
- above is fairly commonplace for myself (except X is 1152x864x65535) on a
- pretty heavily loaded machine and 16M works great. I did notice that cc1
- bloated to 12M while compiling part of "xzx" the other day though, which caused
- a bit of swapping. I'd say this was fairly unusual however.
-
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