From: roskos@telerobo.rutgers.edu (roskos) Subject: Re: Can X run with only 4 megs RAM? Date: 15 Dec 1992 19:30:19 GMT
Well, I consider waiting a few seconds to bring a window back to the
foreground quite tolerable. Xterms generally come back much, much
quicker. Staring an application for the first time requires a little
longer a wait. Xv can take up to a minute if I am loading a JPEG, but
then again loading a JPEG pic is not generally done super fast. Also,
once Xdvi is up, keep it up. The information inside can be updated
with a simple ^L in the window. So waiting a few to several seconds,
for most applications, I imagine is quite satisfactory.
One experiment you might try is to turn off backing store in your
.twmrc (if you use twm). Keeping backing store info could increase
your memory usage very substantially. Again, I am a relative newbie,
so take this with a grain of salt. But if you try this, post or mail
your results - they may be interesting.
--Ed Roskos, roskos@caip.rutgers.edu