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- From: jfritz@ptolemy2.rdrc.rpi.edu (Joe Fritz)
- Subject: Re: Can X run with only 4 megs RAM?
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- References: <Dec.13.14.03.44.1992.2074@telerobo.rutgers.edu> <1992Dec13.220329.29739@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> <andrewc.724292380@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:11:37 GMT
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- In article <andrewc.724292380@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
- >jblaine@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Jeff Blaine) writes:
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >>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?
- >
- >Is this the new X or the old one ?
- >I remember back when I had 4 megs (on a 386dx25) and just got linux going
- >with 0.97pl2 MCC dist. + X (ie X 1.0) and, yep, just having XClock, XBiff
- >going beside an Xterm made it unusable...
- >
- i am unable to get X to work with only 4M. The server works fine .98,
- but it crashes the system On 0.98.4 or later. Maybe this is the same
- problem that has beem complained about. It looks like the kernel is
- killing jobs, but i cannot tell since X is usually what ends up
- killed.
-
- --
-
- -joe (jfritz@rdrc.rpi.edu)
-