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- From: barr@stein.u.washington.edu (David Barr)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Can X run with only 4 megs RAM?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.021857.12217@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 02:18:57 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec13.021857.12217
- References: <dpn2.193.724200652@po.CWRU.Edu> <1992Dec12.232847.17863@mercury.unt.edu>
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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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- I have X running on a 386 33Mhz (4 megs) with no problems.
- Performance is quite good. I have an 8 meg swap file. I'm not sure
- what the problem with your setup is.
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- David
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