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- From: wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Can X run with only 4 megs RAM?
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 05:03:16 GMT
- Organization: University of Houston
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- References: <1992Dec13.220329.29739@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> <andrewc.724292380@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> <9dj2#wl@rpi.edu>
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- In article <9dj2#wl@rpi.edu> jfritz@ptolemy2.rdrc.rpi.edu (Joe Fritz) writes:
- >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.
-
- First, monitor the swap space usage.
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- I have been using (Xwindow + Xview3) with 0.98.2, 98.3, 98.4, 98.5
- and now 98.6, without any problem with only 4M bytes without math processor.
- I use X stuff from SLS distribution.
- When I start X, I open 3 xterms, oclock, xeyes with olwm.
- I found that Linux uses about 2M for swap in this case.
- Xdvi, ghostview/script work just fine.
- Only problem is that compiling is so slow and you need some patience when
- moving to other window (5 sec or slightly more).
- In this case, I found that Linux uses 8M for swap (twice more than my memory).
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