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- From: roskos@telerobo.rutgers.edu (roskos)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Can X run with only 4 megs RAM?
- Message-ID: <Dec.13.14.03.44.1992.2074@telerobo.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 19:03:45 GMT
- References: <dpn2.193.724200652@po.CWRU.Edu>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- Wow. I have been using 4 Meg of RAM on a 33MHz 386 with a 15Meg swap
- partition (like to play it safe with swap space :-) without any real
- performance troubles so far. I can have 2 xterms, emacs, xdvi, and an
- xconq game going, and bringing different windows up is a matter of a
- few seconds at the most, often only a second or two. I have been
- running Xfree86 in 800x600 (color) physical resolution with a virtual
- screen of 1024x768 (my card has 1 Meg of RAM, making the virtual
- scrolling nice and quick. And with all that I have running, I must be
- swapping quite a bit. I am a relative newbie, but I don't think that
- from what I have seen, 4Meg of RAM is too big a problem.
-
- --Ed Roskos, roskos@caip.rutgers.edu
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