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- From: farrow@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott Farrow)
- Subject: Re: Can X run with only 4 megs RAM?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.001407.4188@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:14:07 GMT
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- jackson@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Bruce Jackson) writes:
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- >In article <dpn2.193.724200652@po.CWRU.Edu> dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil) writes:
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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
-
- Ditto. I have a 4MB 486DX/33 and the Xmono server runs fine as long I as don't
- try and do too much at once. Then again, maybe Santa will bring me more memory
- for Christmas!
-
- Scott
-
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