From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 25 15:08:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27067 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 15:08:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.loco.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27034 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 15:08:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.loco.net (8.8.5/8.8.4) id RAA01617; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 17:59:35 -0400 Message-Id: <199804252159.RAA01617@lucy.loco.net> Subject: Re: 486 - Pushing it for an X-Server? To: kpielorz@tdx.co.uk (Karl Pielorz) Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 17:59:34 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3541F5F7.843520BE@tdx.co.uk> from Karl Pielorz at "Apr 25, 98 03:40:55 pm" From: CyberPeasant Reply-To: djv@bedford.net X-no-archive: yes X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, > > I have a 486DX4-100 which I would like to use as a 'remote' terminal system > for my main machine (which is a dual PPro 200 running 3.0-CURRENT). > > The 486 has 16Mb of RAM and a Trident (!Chipset forgotten - but supported by > SVGA X-Server!) VESA Local bus card. > > The machine has a 1Gb IDE drive. > > Is this machine going to be fast enough for me to run as an X-Server display > for programs started on my machine machine? > > I'll probably be using Netscape mainly + a few other programs / utilities... > > I guess if the software is running on the big one, 16Mb of RAM should be > enough for the X-Server? > > Any comments? (Apart from 'buy a new machine? ) > > Karl Pielorz Should work like a charm. The throttles will probably be your video card and the ethernet bandwidth. On a lightly loaded 10Base2 or T you should be OK. I use pmaxes (DecStation 3100's) as X-terminals, which have less horsepower than that. (About ~= 486/33). Netscape will pig out on the PPros' memory, not the 486's. As an X-terminal, the pmax doesn't do any swapping; it has 16MB of memory, and is a Mips R2000 cpu, which uses more memory than a x86 chip for the same code (risc arch. etc etc). OTOH, I'm using a 1 bit mono framebuffer, so YMMV. (But this is video card issue i think). Consider using the PPro machine as a fontserver, too. If you have the time, could you contact me off-list about dual PPro's? (I've a question or two). Dave -- <----. mailto/pgpfinger: djv@bedford.net <----|=================================== <----' Crathva fxrjre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message