From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 10 7:32:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 871A937B653 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 07:32:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA10360; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:30:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200007101430.KAA10360@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Josh Paetzel" Cc: "Dutch Collins" , "Yevhen Miroshnychenko" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-Window on computer with 170MB HDD In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Jan 1990 21:53:42 CST." <005401b42881$e9d21ec0$33cefea9@josh> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:30:54 -0400 From: "Richard E. Hawkins" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I definitely agree about the performance issue. A 486sx with 18 megs of ram > is going to be painful with X....I installed X with KDE on a Pentium 75 with > 40 megs of ram just to see what it would be like and it is not pretty. Just > running X and no other applications digs the machine into 10-15 megs of > swap. That's not X biting you, it's KDE . . . eliminate that, and you should be able to run just about anything but emacs [ob. troll: anyone who has *ever* found a system with enough memory to keep emacs happy, raise your hand . . . :) ] hawk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message