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 -- 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
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