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From: heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com
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Subject: Re: which is better: 8 more Meg RAM or a 33-387 to run X?
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Date: 27 Aug 90 16:16:56 GMT
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In article <208@beagle.uucp> chandler@beagle.uucp (Jim Chandler) writes:
>>  
>Get the 8 additional megs.  With only 4 Megs the machine will swap like 
>crazy and X will be just about useless.  I run X under 8 Megs total with
>no problem but 4 was a nightmare.  BTW, I am also running ESIX Rev. D.
>

Yeah -- with my system (8megs), I found that I have to work to make
it swap at all.  If I run X, and several compiles, and bbs software,
it comes down to a few hundred k free, and then I can get it to swap 
by opening a couple more xterms.  At that point, the system is so
slow I wouldn't want to work with it anyway ...   It looks like
8mb is a good number for most normal apps.

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