From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 21:49:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA06839 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 21:49:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line14.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA06833 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 21:49:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00313; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 21:49:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 21:49:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Richard Heller cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: http://freefall.cdrom.com/support.html In-Reply-To: <199608080037.UAA24858@oucsace.cs.ohiou.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 Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Richard Heller wrote: > I was wondering what's a good amount of ram to have if I want to run > X windows. Right now I have 8M and X windows is slow as dirt on a 486. > Would upgrading to 12M or 16M significantly increase performance? OOOohh, yes :-) I ran my p90 on 800x600x16 for a while at 16mb. It started swapping just after login. So I bumped RAM to 32mb; no more swap, even when running Netscape. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major