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- From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
- Subject: Re: Up and Running linux
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.175330.17630@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
- Keywords: Up and Running linux info. needed
- Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
- References: <BtK3Ft.JFM@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <trussell.714780309@cwis>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:53:30 GMT
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- In article <trussell.714780309@cwis> trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tim Russell) writes:
- > Sure. I've seen posts from people running Linux with 2 M of ram even.
-
- It is not a pretty sight. I just installed Linux on a second machine, a
- 386SX-25 with 2 MB of RAM. I have 880K free after the kernel is loaded,
- and bash takes a huge chunk of that. I can run kermit but not shell out
- very often because I usually get a lot of "out of memory" errors. (Swapping
- doesn't seem to eliminate these error messages, maybe my "working set" is
- too big to fit in 880K.) When I *AM* able to run a command from within
- kermit, it is S-L-O-W.
-
- I am getting ready to upgrade to 6 MB of RAM. :-) As for minimum
- requirements for Linux, I suggest we recommend 3 or 4 MB of RAM. For
- X, I would say 6 MB. 4 MB wasn't enough to do much with, and 8 MB on my
- 386DX-33 was overkill for most of the stuff I was doing. I don't
- require more than 6 MB very often, but that's what swapping is for. :-)
-
- >As far as the 106 M drive, that's certainly enough to run a nice Linux system,
- >I'm only using 160 M on my SCSI drives for Linux, and with X, two versions
- >of GCC, Linux source, etc etc I still have over 90 M free. My feeling so far
- >is that 80-90 M would be enough disk space for most users unless you're
- >running news or something.
-
- I agree, 106 MB is plenty of disk space. Unless you are going to keep a
- lot of source code on your disk. For binaries, a 64 MB Minix partition
- is sufficient for me, and I have a lot of font files and other stuff.
- On my SX, I have 8 MB swap and 55 MB Minix partitions and haven't run
- into any problems.
-
- > Depends on what your idea of "the complete Linux" is. :-) As I said,
- >my system, except for news and TCP/IP, is a "complete linux", and I'm using
- >3 M on my root partition and 55 M on my usr partition with a bunch of junk
- >sitting around.
-
- Another pack rat? :-) I gave gave Linux another 64 MB partition on my
- DX because I was too lazy to do some house cleaning. Some of the stuff
- hasn't been touched since April!
-
- >> 4). What's the major fugures of Linux? Doesn't it support X on 386sx ?
- >
- > Sure does. It may be a bit sluggish on 4 M of ram, and you'll definitely
- >want a swap partition, but it should work.
-
- How about those Linuxers with 16-32 MB of RAM? I haven't heard their
- experiences. I wonder if they ever managed to run out of memory, except
- when compiling something big like Interviews. :-)
-
- --
- Jim H.
- *
- * James L. Henrickson
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