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From: sdg@uts.amdahl.com (Subrata Dasgupta)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Computing resources used up by X
Message-ID: <7bbg02Yhbaks01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 25 Jul 90 22:45:10 GMT
Reply-To: sdg@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Subrata Dasgupta)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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I have heard that running X on a Sun Sparcstation uses up close
to half of the available mips. Is this true?  Also, how much runtime
memory is typically used by X ?  How would these numbers vary is
someone were to run the Motif window manager instead of xwm ?

Thanks

-sdg