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From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,ba.windows.x
Subject: Re: Running X windows on a 16MHz 386sx
Message-ID: <1990Oct12.153331.5555@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 12 Oct 90 15:33:31 GMT
References: <1990Oct08.120302.5093@nstar.uucp> <1990Oct9.023549.8015@unixland.uucp> <1990Oct09.123819.366@nstar.uucp>
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In article <1990Oct09.123819.366@nstar.uucp> larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes:
>bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
>>>I have a 33 with 8 megs also - and with X - my machine still pages
>>>I guess I need another 4 megs of RAM..
>Yes - I run X release 1.2 - and I need at least another 4 megs of
>RAM.

	Something is weird.  I run chinet on a 20mhz 386 with 8 megs
	memory.  It is ISC 2.2 and I run X 1.2 on the console.  There
	are anywhere from 0 to 9 users at a time on chinet running
	things like trn, and cnews is doing its thing on 8 megs of
	news a day.  I NEVER swap.  I just looked at 2 weeks of sar
	output, and watched u386mon from an xterm while news was
	unpacking and there were 4 people doing various things.
	Never went above 80% memory usage.
	Sounds like some kernel tuning is in order.

	-randy

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Randy Suess
randy@chinet.chi.il.us