From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 12 11:35:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA16914 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 11:35:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from nemesis.idirect.com (root@nemesis.idirect.com [207.136.80.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA16828 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 11:34:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from hometown.idirect.com (carrera@hometown.idirect.com [207.136.66.27]) by nemesis.idirect.com (8.6.9/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA11008; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 14:34:08 -0500 Received: from localhost (carrera@localhost) by hometown.idirect.com (8.7.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA15218; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 14:18:54 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: hometown.idirect.com: carrera owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 14:18:54 -0500 (EST) From: Jason Lixfeld To: Tim Pierce cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New FreeBSD Box In-Reply-To: <9611121923.AA00940@bio-5.bsd.uchicago.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Tim Pierce wrote: > I'm running 2.1.5 quite comfortably on a 486SX with 8MB RAM. No > prizes for speed, but response time is pretty good. When I have > gcc and Emacs running at once I get a little swapping. However, > I'm not running X11, and suspect that your performance will drop > noticeably if you do. So I'v been told! :)