From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) Subject: Re: Can X run with only 4 megs RAM? Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:19:40 GMT
jblaine@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Jeff Blaine) writes:
>I have a 386-25 with 4 megs and a 9 meg swap partition. It seems very
>odd the responses that this question has been getting. People with nearly
>the same configuration are having totally different circumstances come about
>from running X.
>One person said they could run 2 xterms, xconq, xman etc and the initial
>person said they had 2 to 3 minutes lags between mouse movements.
>I can open one xterm. If I open anything else at all, X starts swapping
>massively to disk. I mean, unbearable lag if I open anything other than
>an xterm. X seems to swap for a few minutes (lots of disk action) if
>anything more than that one xterm is opened. Does anyone know what the
>deal is with all of these different reports?
Is this the new X or the old one ?
I remember back when I had 4 megs (on a 386dx25) and just got linux going
with 0.97pl2 MCC dist. + X (ie X 1.0) and, yep, just having XClock, XBiff
going beside an Xterm made it unusable...
But then Dad bought another 4meg, so I'm no longer really relevant to the
thread now...
Enjoy !
Cos !
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