From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 15 9: 7:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35B0637B935 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 09:07:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13OjFK-0000Ub-00; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 17:07:22 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA39744; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 17:07:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 17:07:21 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: "Chris J. Mutter" Cc: Brooks Davis , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <20000815170721.B39666@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20000214165644.B7643@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <200002151031.LAA12850@terminal.sil.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200002151031.LAA12850@terminal.sil.at>; from cjm@terminal.sil.at on Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 11:31:43AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org | > On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 07:13:37PM -0500, Troy Settle wrote: | > I assume that GUI think was dtedit or something like it. My first rule | > of surviving Solaris is don't run CDE. In fact, don't run CDE is | > probably my first three rules. ;-) Infact, if the box has work to do, | > running X is generally a bad idea without tons of RAM. I've seen the X | > server hit more then 150MB on my Ultra 10. Add that to netscape and | > staroffice with a powerpoint presentation open and you'll swap a 256MB | > system to death. Why does X start hogging so much memory? Is this for frame buffering? jm -- o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o | ~~~~~~~~~~~ jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org ~~~~~~~~~~~ | | "I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself." | o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message