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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: <9dj2#wl@rpi.edu> <1gh4ikINN1bn@menudo.uh.edu> <1992Dec14.064735.4355@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:42:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.064735.4355@en.ecn.purdue.edu> jbs@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Spaggie) writes:
- >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).
- >
- > 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.
- >
- >Any ideas?
- >
- >Jeff
- >
- i am the original poster. Just for the record my system setup is a
- Zenith 486DX (eg w/ Math Coprocessor), 4M RAM, 512K PVGA (WD30C90, if i
- remember right), on the motherboard.
-
- Thanks for any help i can get
-
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- --
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- -joe (jfritz@rdrc.rpi.edu)
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