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- From: jblaine@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Jeff Blaine)
- Subject: Re: Can X run with only 4 megs RAM?
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 22:03:29 GMT
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- I have a 386-25 with 4 megs and a 9 meg swap partition. It seems very
- odd the responses that this question has been getting. People with nearly
- the same configuration are having totally different circumstances come about
- from running X.
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- One person said they could run 2 xterms, xconq, xman etc and the initial
- person said they had 2 to 3 minutes lags between mouse movements.
- I can open one xterm. If I open anything else at all, X starts swapping
- massively to disk. I mean, unbearable lag if I open anything other than
- an xterm. X seems to swap for a few minutes (lots of disk action) if
- anything more than that one xterm is opened. Does anyone know what the
- deal is with all of these different reports?
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