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From: john@chinet.chi.il.us (John Mundt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,ba.windows.x
Subject: Re: Running X windows on a 16MHz 386sx
Message-ID: <1990Oct13.002739.2276@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 13 Oct 90 00:27:39 GMT
References: <1990Oct9.023549.8015@unixland.uucp> <1990Oct09.123819.366@nstar.uucp> <1990Oct12.153331.5555@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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In article <1990Oct12.153331.5555@chinet.chi.il.us> randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) 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.
>
>-- 

Which begs the question, how did *you* tune your kernel, Randy?

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