Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!uxc!ksuvax1!eecea!terry From: terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Terry Hull) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Bell Tech W.G.E. use with "sissy" unix Message-ID: <436@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> Date: 13 Oct 88 13:19:33 GMT References: <438@l5comp.UUCP> <283@belltec.UUCP> <224@obie.UUCP> Reply-To: terry@eecea.UUCP (Terry Hull) Organization: Kansas State University, Manhattan Lines: 25 In article <224@obie.UUCP> wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes: > > [Question deleted] > >How much real memory is needed (when using the current X10R4 code) to >keep the system from paging like mad. I.e., the system should be able >to run a couple of csh's or vi's without paging during program >execution. > I have been told by a Bell Tech sales person that the system will run with 3 Mb of memory. They also said that the system would be paging quite a bit during "normal" operations. 4 Mb was recomended as being much more satisfactory. Several months ago, I spoke with an AT&T employee who was working on their X11 port, and he said 4 MB was te minimum amount of memory he conidered usable. Disclaimer: I am not currently a Bell Tech 10.4 user. I have XENIX and am waiting for my copy of 2.3 and Streams. -- Terry Hull Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Kansas State University INTERNET: terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu Manhattan, KS 66502 UUCP: {pyramid,ucsd}!ncr-sd!ncrwic!ksuvax1!eecea!terry