Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 17:59:34 -0400 (EDT) From: CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net> To: kpielorz@tdx.co.uk (Karl Pielorz) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 486 - Pushing it for an X-Server? Message-ID: <199804252159.RAA01617@lucy.loco.net> In-Reply-To: <3541F5F7.843520BE@tdx.co.uk> from Karl Pielorz at "Apr 25, 98 03:40:55 pm"
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> Hi,
>
> I have a 486DX4-100 which I would like to use as a 'remote' terminal system
> for my main machine (which is a dual PPro 200 running 3.0-CURRENT).
>
> The 486 has 16Mb of RAM and a Trident (!Chipset forgotten - but supported by
> SVGA X-Server!) VESA Local bus card.
>
> The machine has a 1Gb IDE drive.
>
> Is this machine going to be fast enough for me to run as an X-Server display
> for programs started on my machine machine?
>
> I'll probably be using Netscape mainly + a few other programs / utilities...
>
> I guess if the software is running on the big one, 16Mb of RAM should be
> enough for the X-Server?
>
> Any comments? (Apart from 'buy a new machine? <G>)
>
> Karl Pielorz
Should work like a charm. The throttles will probably be your video card
and the ethernet bandwidth. On a lightly loaded 10Base2 or T you should be
OK.
I use pmaxes (DecStation 3100's) as X-terminals, which have less horsepower
than that. (About ~= 486/33). Netscape will pig out on the PPros' memory,
not the 486's. As an X-terminal, the pmax doesn't do any swapping; it has
16MB of memory, and is a Mips R2000 cpu, which uses more memory than a
x86 chip for the same code (risc arch. etc etc). OTOH, I'm using a 1 bit
mono framebuffer, so YMMV. (But this is video card issue i think).
Consider using the PPro machine as a fontserver, too.
If you have the time, could you contact me off-list about dual PPro's?
(I've a question or two).
Dave
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