Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 22:02:18 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Jason <jsmethers@pdq.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The joys of Windows Message-ID: <20000718220217.A677@pool1162.cvx20-bradley.dialup.e> In-Reply-To: <008201bff100$a3ad4980$9ccf1f40@pdq.net>; from jsmethers@pdq.net on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 04:39:23PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007181522270.25933-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <008201bff100$a3ad4980$9ccf1f40@pdq.net>
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 04:39:23PM -0500, Jason wrote:
> From: "Adam" <bsdx@looksharp.net>
> > I have workstations as well as servers. I run FreeBSD on them all.
> > I just booted up FreeBSD on one, started XFree86, and am in icewm with an
> > xterm open and top running. Mem: ~7.6M active, ~7.6M Inactive, 12M Wired,
> > 32K Cache, 8112K Buf, 97M Free out of 128M total. The 7.6M and 32K cache
> > and 8112K cache can be considered free also if you realize they can be
> > paged out or shrunk if more mem is needed. 31 < 64.
Yeah, better not take 64 MB on my 40 MB RAM notebook PC here,
[112:~] ps aux | grep XF86
root 658 0.6 7.8 8244 2976 ?? S 9:40PM 0:11.65 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 (XF86_SVGA)
[113:~] swapinfo
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
/dev/rad0s1b 61312 3772 57540 6% Interleaved
Oops. emacs made somethin' swap out to do this email.
> Again there are many variables to this whole discussion and it all comes
> down to some personal intrest.
>
> I can't give specifiec numbers since I always revert my main machine back to
> windows after having a period of having used FreeBSD and X.
>
> Last time I worked with the two using KDE, X's size started at about 40M and
> by the time I had done some work or played around it would be up to 50M -
> 55M.
Whoa! What were you doing?!
> Take into account instance of netscape, xtrem, etc., my memory usage
^^^^^^^^
Ahhh. All is explained.
[snip]
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Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu
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