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From: schoch@sheba.arc.nasa.gov (Steve Schoch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,ba.windows.x
Subject: Re: Running X windows on a 16MHz 386sx
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Date: 10 Oct 90 16:00:44 GMT
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In article <1990Oct09.115208.1490@virtech.uucp>, cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
|> 
|> This depends upon how many windows you are opening, what other processes 
|> you are running,  how many users are on your machine, etc.

This depends mostly on what other processes you are running.  Creating another
window on an X server takes about 100 bytes for most servers (the space
needed by the structures allocated for each window - if the server does a
saveUnder for the window it will take more).  However, another process such
as xterm will take 150k.  This assumes you have shared text and another xterm
is already running.  Otherwise a new X application can take 1/2 Meg.

I think a lot of this is for the toolkit and widget code.

	Steve