Running X windows on a 16MHz 386sx
John Mundt
john at chinet.chi.il.us
Sat Oct 13 10:27:39 AEST 1990
In article <1990Oct12.153331.5555 at chinet.chi.il.us> randy at chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes:
>>bill at 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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