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- From: kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu (Kevin P. Neal)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: NetBSD Hopeful
- Date: 23 Feb 1996 17:01:02 GMT
- Organization: North Carolina State University
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- Matthias Scheler (tron@lyssa.owl.de) wrote:
- : Neil Brendan Clark wrote in comp.unix.amiga about "Re: NetBSD Hopeful":
- : > ... I can't see you ever needing more than 16M.
- :
- : 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. And
- : things get even worse if you don't want to quit "emacs" while
- : compiling.
- :
-
- I believe the sickest I ever did was on a 3/260 (sun) running ScumOS
- 4.1.1 with 8mb of RAM, and 52mb of swap.
-
- cd /project/gs
- make -j -k
-
- Heh. Found out that SunOS handles an out-of-swap condition very very well.
- Impressed the hell out of the Pentium-laden Linux people that infested
- my dorm.
-
- Oh, and BTW, 12mb RAM, X, twm, 3-4 motif xterms, emacs, gcc, whoa there!
- I am down to 28/32 mb of swap! Need more swap. need more swap.
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