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- From: kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Karl Fogel)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Can X run with only 4 megs RAM?
- Message-ID: <KFOGEL.92Dec15093502@occs.cs.oberlin.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 14:35:02 GMT
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- <Dec.13.14.03.44.1992.2074@telerobo.rutgers.edu>
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- In-Reply-To: roskos@telerobo.rutgers.edu's message of 13 Dec 92 19:03:45 GMT
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- In article <Dec.13.14.03.44.1992.2074@telerobo.rutgers.edu> roskos@telerobo.rutgers.edu (roskos) writes:
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- Wow. I have been using 4 Meg of RAM on a 33MHz 386 with a 15Meg swap
- partition (like to play it safe with swap space :-) without any real
- performance troubles so far. I can have 2 xterms, emacs, xdvi, and an
- xconq game going, and bringing different windows up is a matter of a
- few seconds at the most, often only a second or two. I have been
- running Xfree86 in 800x600 (color) physical resolution with a virtual
- screen of 1024x768 (my card has 1 Meg of RAM, making the virtual
- scrolling nice and quick. And with all that I have running, I must be
- swapping quite a bit. I am a relative newbie, but I don't think that
- from what I have seen, 4Meg of RAM is too big a problem.
-
- --Ed Roskos, roskos@caip.rutgers.edu
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-
- Huh! I have nearly the same config: 4 megs RAM, 386/40 (AMD),
- 16 megs swap, and I'm running in 640 by 480, color. By all counts, my
- X should be even faster than Ed's! But if I had 2 xterms, emacs, xdvi,
- and anything else running, the swap time would be unbearable! I never
- open more than 4 windows of anything now, and if I run Xv, or xdvi, I
- expect things to take a long time. Starting up xdvi or xv can require
- more than one minute, when xemacs is running as well! Compilations
- take much longer in X... in short, why is my system so much slower
- than his? It's still quite useable, and I love it, but what the heck
- is going on here? I have heard so many different reports of X speeds
- from Linuxers, and I can't see why there should be such a wide range
- of timings, especially as they don't necessarily make "faster" systems
- look any faster in reality!
- Any ideas?
- --
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- Karl Fogel ("Leg of Lark") <> Member, League for Programming Freedom
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