Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,ba.windows.x
Subject: Re: Running X windows on a 16MHz 386sx
Message-ID: <1990Oct09.115208.1490@virtech.uucp>
Date: 9 Oct 90 11:52:08 GMT
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Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
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In article <1990Oct08.120302.5093@nstar.uucp> larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes:
>I have a 33 with 8 megs also - and with X - my machine still pages

This depends upon how many windows you are opening, what other processes 
you are running,  how many users are on your machine, etc.

For most X users 8MB will be enough.  If you are running big applications,
or lots of them, you may want to go to 12 MB.

We are running with 8MB on one X system and 12MB on the other.  On each of
them we have 10 X processes running and have had no problem swapping
on either system.

>I guess I need another 4 megs of RAM..

Sounds that way to me.  Perhaps you have some processes that gobble up 
lots of memory.

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