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- From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Minor XFree86 problems, long function key string bug in elvis
- Date: 2 Jan 93 17:18:36
- Organization: /usr/blymn/.organization
- Lines: 40
- Distribution: "world"
- Message-ID: <BLYMN.93Jan2171836@siren.awadi.com.au>
- References: <1992Dec30.005909.15079@tackle.uucp> <C02tDI.4F8@chinet.chi.il.us>
- <1992Dec30.232628.7555@citec.oz.au>
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- In-reply-to: sgccseh@citec.oz.au's message of Wed, 30 Dec 1992 23:26:28 GMT
-
- >>>>> On Wed, 30 Dec 1992 23:26:28 GMT, sgccseh@citec.oz.au (Steve Hocking) said:
-
- Steve> randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec30.005909.15079@tackle.uucp> jc@tackle.uucp (John Capo) writes:
- >>I have XFree86 running and only have a few problems left to solve.
- >>Another thing I have noticed is that my machine is on its knees when
- >>I am compiling and running X at the same time.
- >> No name 386/33, 8M RAM, 128K cache.
-
- > I have found that 8 megs memory is enough to bring X up with
- > an xterm and that is about it without swapping. Putting
- > another 4 megs of ram in helps a lot and 16 megs makes it
- > the fastest x86 based X system I have seen.
- > This is not bad, as my sysvr4 system will barely run all
- > by itself with 8 megs, and even with 16 megs, it swaps all
- > over the place with X.
- [stuff deleted]
- >Randy Suess randy@chinet.chi.il.us
-
- Steve> I'm quite comfortably running SVR4 on an 8Mb machine with XFree86.
- Steve> Usually I have 3 xterms, a clock and a few other bits & pieces running, plus
- Steve> the occasional large compile using gcc. It works fine, although gcc will
- Steve> elbow out a few things when compiling C++ programs with all the optimisation
- Steve> bells. It's quite tolerable, even on a 25MHz 386sx (with 32k cache). BTW the
- Steve> Unix is Dell 2.2 with all the uneccessary drivers pulled (RFS, all ethernet
- Steve> except WD, some graphics boards). I run NFS, slip, IP, all the stuff X needs
- Steve> and the SCSI drivers (I have a Wren 6 drive + BusTek/BusLogic controller -
- Steve> fast). 16Mb would be heaps.
-
- Yes you are about on the limit of memory considering what you are
- doing. I bet that if you tried doing something like having your
- xterms and a copy of emacs and gdb and *then* compiling that you will
- find that you will be doing quite a bit of swapping. It seems like
- 8Megs is adequate if you do the occaisional compile and hacking about
- but if you get into intensive compile/crash/edit cycles you soon find
- the memory is limited. I never regretted upgrading to 16Meg ;-)
-
- --
- Brett Lymn
-