Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:19:05 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) From: Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net> To: "Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Cc: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>, Yevhen Miroshnychenko <miroshny@cip.physik.uni-bonn.de>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-Window on computer with 170MB HDD Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0007101513550.-137285@muffy> In-Reply-To: <200007101430.KAA10360@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:30:54 -0400 > From: Richard E. Hawkins <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu> > To: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> > Cc: Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net>, > Yevhen Miroshnychenko <miroshny@cip.physik.uni-bonn.de>, > questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: X-Window on computer with 170MB HDD > > > > I definitely agree about the performance issue. A 486sx with 18 megs of ram > > is going to be painful with X....I installed X with KDE on a Pentium 75 with > > 40 megs of ram just to see what it would be like and it is not pretty. Just > > running X and no other applications digs the machine into 10-15 megs of > > swap. > > That's not X biting you, it's KDE . . . eliminate that, and you should > be able to run just about anything but emacs [ob. troll: anyone who > has *ever* found a system with enough memory to keep emacs happy, raise > your hand . . . :) ] > > hawk > I figured that KDE was the 'hog'. And to correct an error, AMD 486dx4-enhanced at 100Mhz, is the proper id of the chip. Anyhow, I use emacs all the time. Works fine, even when ssh to the box. live-and-learn. -d -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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