From: jfritz@ptolemy2.rdrc.rpi.edu (Joe Fritz) Subject: Re: Can X run with only 4 megs RAM? Date: 14 Dec 1992 02:11:37 GMT
In article <andrewc.724292380@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
>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...
>
i am unable to get X to work with only 4M. The server works fine .98,
but it crashes the system On 0.98.4 or later. Maybe this is the same
problem that has beem complained about. It looks like the kernel is
killing jobs, but i cannot tell since X is usually what ends up
killed.
---joe (jfritz@rdrc.rpi.edu)