From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 18 22: 4:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net (emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3ABC37BB45 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 22:04:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@pool1181.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net) Received: from pool1181.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net (pool1181.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.254.161]) by emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA09847; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 22:04:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by pool1162.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA00741; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 22:02:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 22:02:18 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Jason Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The joys of Windows Message-ID: <20000718220217.A677@pool1162.cvx20-bradley.dialup.e> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <008201bff100$a3ad4980$9ccf1f40@pdq.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <008201bff100$a3ad4980$9ccf1f40@pdq.net>; from jsmethers@pdq.net on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 04:39:23PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 04:39:23PM -0500, Jason wrote: > From: "Adam" > > 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] -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message