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- From: jbs@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Spaggie)
- Subject: Re: Can X run with only 4 megs RAM?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.064735.4355@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 06:47:35 GMT
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- In article <1gh4ikINN1bn@menudo.uh.edu> wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin) writes:
- >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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- Strange. I have observed a problem with running X under 98.4, and 98.5,
- similiar to the ones describe by the original poster. When I changed back to
- 98.0, things worked again. Seems the X server just hangs. My system sounds
- similair to yours, except I have a math co-proc. (386-40,AMD BIOS,ETEQ chipset,
- 4MB mem, 10MB swap, Cyrix 387-40). Has anyone else had trouble with X under
- 98.x where x>1? (by the way, it is unrelated to the video card, as I tried
- 3 different cards, each with the same results.
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- Any ideas?
-
- Jeff
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