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- From: jackson@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Bruce Jackson)
- Subject: Re: Can X run with only 4 megs RAM?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.232847.17863@mercury.unt.edu>
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- Organization: University of North Texas, Denton
- References: <dpn2.193.724200652@po.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 23:28:47 GMT
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- In article <dpn2.193.724200652@po.CWRU.Edu> dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil) writes:
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- >took it about an hour to start up, mouse movements are recognized only after
- >a 2-3 minute wait, and it takes almost ten minutes for keystrokes to appear
- >in bash...
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- >Since I see a large amount of disk thrashing, I assume that there is a lot
- >of swapping going on. Since I have only 4 megs of RAM, and a ~6 meg swap
- >partition, this is not surprising. But does it have to be this slow? I had
- >thought that X was usable with 4 megs RAM -- was I wrong? Please say no!
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- >My system is a 486 SX/25.
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- Try the mono X server. I have a 4 MB 486SX/33 and the mono server runs
- very nicely if I don't run too much other stuff.
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- >Damien Neil dpn2@po.cwru.edu
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- Bruce - jackson@cs.unt.edu
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