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- From: mhbrekke@iastate.edu (Monty H. Brekke)
- Subject: Re: Enough memory for X?
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1992Nov19.094620.8917@newstand.syr.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 07:46:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.094620.8917@newstand.syr.edu> ldstern@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Larry Stern) writes:
- >Quick question: I have plenty of hard disk space but only 4M of ram.
- >Before I start ftping and downloading mult-megs of binaries for X11,
- >should I even bother? The FAQ says 8M of ram are needed (required?),
- >but I'm wondering if I can get away with 4.
- >
- 4 MB will probably work if you have a large swap partition, but will
- certainly be slow. What I've seen from looking at my system is that
- with a few X apps running (Xterm, clock, xload) I'm using about 5MB.
- I'm running the S3 server, which is a little smaller than the "normal"
- XFree86 server but I don't know how the memory usage compares. My
- recommendation is to have at least 8MB installed. But like I said,
- 4MB might work if you don't mind a *lot* of swapping...
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