From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 13 15:22:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from superman.imag.net (superman.imag.net [207.200.148.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B06037BE00 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:22:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from markh@lon.imag.net) Received: from mymachine.imag.net (lon-p131.wwdc.com [207.200.138.132]) by superman.imag.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA04488; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:23:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Hendriks Reply-To: markh@lon.imag.net To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-Window Manager for Small Size RAM Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 18:11:58 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <000701bfa4f1$d97bb520$4f1e40ca@alexkwan> Cc: alexkwan@pacific.net.hk MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00041318192000.00249@mymachine.imag.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Alex Kwan wrote: > Hi! > My FreeBsd Box was 4.0R am only have 32 MB RAM, > which X window managers are recommanded? Pretty much anything other than Gnome, actually. If you haven't already done so, rebuilding your kernel with only the drivers you do need will make more of a difference than your choice of window manager. Window managers run in user space, so they can be swapped, (but if you run Gnome on 32 MB RAM, it'll spend too much time swapping.) The kernel, on the other hand, can't be swapped, so unnecessary drivers just chew up memory. Mark Hendriks markh@lon.imag.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message