Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ssbell!mcmi!dsndata!wayne From: wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Speeding up Sun 4 X? Message-ID: Date: 8 Jan 90 19:08:35 GMT References: <33410@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <9001021710.AA11011@dart.cs.byu.edu> <33480@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <641@mmlai.UUCP> Sender: wayne@dsndata.UUCP Organization: Design Data Lines: 27 In-reply-to: burzio@mmlai.UUCP's message of 7 Jan 90 15:42:19 GMT In article <641@mmlai.UUCP> burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio) writes: > [ .... ] > > This is all very confusing for me. We have a discless HP330 (~1.5 MIPS) > with 4MB RAM(!) running X, and it runs HPs' X just fine. Sure, there is 3-4 > second pause between window switches while the machine swaps, ... > [ ... ] X starts up > quite promptly and is judged useable [ ...] wow. we have found that a 4meg hpux system running X pages with just an xterm running. if you try to run anything serious, it thrashes. although we are not using X here very much yet, i guess i have always figured that 8meg was minimum. even with 8meg it sometimes takes 3-4 seconds between window switches. personally, i dont think 3-4 seconds is too good, but i guess everyone has a different idea of what "promptly" and "usable" are. we have tried to tune the system, but the best we have been able to do is get hpux to consume around 1.75meg, X takes about 1.5meg, xterm takes about .5meg, and xload and xclock take about .5meg. this totals up to 4.25 meg... -wayne