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- From: trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tim Russell)
- Subject: Re: Up and Running linux
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- Keywords: Up and Running linux info. needed
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:54:05 GMT
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- ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
-
- >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. :-)
-
- Well, actually I have 16 MB of RAM, and just for kicks since I have
- tons of disk space (envy me :)) I even put on an 8 MB swap partition. As
- far as I know, I've never come /anywhere/ near even getting into the swap,
- with X running several (8-10) clients and doing kernel compiles at the
- same time.
-
- I understand that GCC gets *really* big really fast when you have large
- pre-initialized arrays, though. I haven't tried compiling anything that
- does that as of yet.
-
- --
- Tim Russell Omaha, NE trussell@unomaha.edu
- One of the richest men in the world made his billions selling a toy "operating
- system" that is more accurately described as a glorified bootstrap loader.
- -- Phil Karn
-