From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 24 17:07:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA07369 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 17:07:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA07362 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 17:07:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA28627; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 11:44:55 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601250114.LAA28627@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: reducing X server memory usage? To: mitzel@Ipsilon.COM (Danny J. Mitzel) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 11:44:54 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, mitzel@Ipsilon.COM In-Reply-To: <199601241850.KAA22417@mailhost.Ipsilon.COM> from "Danny J. Mitzel" at Jan 24, 96 10:50:40 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Danny J. Mitzel stands accused of saying: > > I just brought my machine up with FreeBSD-2.1.0-RELEASE. it is a > pentium 133, 16MB memory, sony 17se monitor, and ATI mach64 framebuffer. Why only 16? A machine like that should have at _least_ 32M. > I was told [locally] that the XFree86 server distributed with FreeBSD > would not work with this monitor/framebuffer, so I loaded the X Inside Not true. > Accelerated X server we have. I start up the X server in 1024x768 > 8bit color mode and the X server immediately occupies over 10M of memory > [this is 75% of my real memory! :-[ opening an emacs and netscape > immediatly puts me into thrashing mode :'( Complain to Xinside, or use the distributed X server. Note that you may have problems with FreeBSD probing sio3 and the the Mach64, but if you've gotten this far then that's obviously not the case. > I'm wondering if there's anything I should check to reduce memory usage? > is there another XFree86 X server that will support this monitor/framebuffer > with less memory usage? is FreeBSD+X11 usable on a 16M machine? That depends on whether you're using an 8-bit video mode (yes) or something deeper (no). I run 1280x1024x16bpp here, and 32M is definitely a minimum if you want to do much. > danny -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[