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Date:      Tue, 15 Aug 2000 17:07:21 +0100
From:      j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To:        "Chris J. Mutter" <cjm@terminal.sil.at>
Cc:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday!
Message-ID:  <20000815170721.B39666@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <200002151031.LAA12850@terminal.sil.at>; from cjm@terminal.sil.at on Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 11:31:43AM %2B0100
References:  <20000214165644.B7643@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <200002151031.LAA12850@terminal.sil.at>

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| > 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
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