Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 21:49:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Richard Heller <rheller@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: http://freefall.cdrom.com/support.html Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960807214825.216K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199608080037.UAA24858@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>
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On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Richard Heller wrote: > I was wondering what's a good amount of ram to have if I want to run > X windows. Right now I have 8M and X windows is slow as dirt on a 486. > Would upgrading to 12M or 16M significantly increase performance? OOOohh, yes :-) I ran my p90 on 800x600x16 for a while at 16mb. It started swapping just after login. So I bumped RAM to 32mb; no more swap, even when running Netscape. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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