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- From: kgray@netcom.com (Kerry Gray)
- Subject: Re: Suggestions on X for A3000 with 2 chip, 4 Fast
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- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 03:23:17 GMT
- Sender: kgray@netcom11.netcom.com
-
- David Kerrivan (thoth@bnr.ca) wrote:
- : Ok, perhaps this isn't the smartest way to run, but I like using
- : X.
-
- : I have:
-
- : A3000/16 (68030 + 68881 + MMU)
- : 2 Mb chip
- : 4 Mb Fast
- : 1950 Monitor
- : 52 Mb Quantum SCSI-2 (Ados 2.1 partitions)
- : 200 Mb Rodime SCSI-1 (/ and swap)
- : 135 Mb Miniscribe ESDI on EMULEX ESDI-SCSI (Sun 3/60 Shoebox) (acts as scratch
- : to slow for much real work.)
- : CDROM Toshiba (forget model number) single speed, not installed at the moment
- : system is being hacked together slowly)
-
- : I have due to hardware and space constraints, set up / and /usr on the rodime
- : as just one filesystem, the swap space is the second partition. (my HDtoolbox
- : is unable to create more than one partion - I've not been able to track the
- : answer to this prob down yet.)
-
-
- : The real question:
-
- : I setup the system over the weekend, and tried to get X installed. I am
- : running the system with X11R6, and fvwm (seems to get rave reviews
- : on function and size.) and XdanvierBig installed. ( I presume I did this
- : correctly )
-
- : The system takes about 10 minutes to get up and open a single xterm.
- : I have the swap partition set to be 3 * total ram + a little for good
- : measure= 20 Mb.
-
- This is normal for X on the system you describe. The whole X system
- takes up more than 4MB. That means it will sit there until you do
- something, at which time it will start paging like crazy. It's no
- different from trying to run OS/2 on a 4MB PC, or NT on an 8MB PC. Your
- X system is "thrashing," meaning it is taking almost all its time up with
- swapping in and out.
-
- : Besides the answer "buy more ram" which is not fiscally possible right now,
- : is there a way to stream line this setup so that I can get at least
- : 2 xterms running smoothly? ( I don't really like csh job control - I forget
- : what I'm doing.)
-
- You can edit the init file to remove the extra stuff like xeyes and biff,
- and set however many xterms you want.
-
- : I still have not gotten into things deep enough to recompile my kernel.
-
- Compiling an A3000-specific kernel will save you circa 200K over the
- generic one. There may be precompiled 3000 kernels on the ftp site.
-
- : Eagerly awaiting a helpful answer, or at least a glimmer of hope...
-
- Sorry...you're just asking for too much from so little RAM.
-