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From: Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net>
To: "Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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	Yevhen Miroshnychenko <miroshny@cip.physik.uni-bonn.de>,
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Subject: Re: X-Window on computer with 170MB HDD 
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:

> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:30:54 -0400
> From: Richard E. Hawkins <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
> To: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
> Cc: Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net>,
>      Yevhen Miroshnychenko <miroshny@cip.physik.uni-bonn.de>,
>      questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: X-Window on computer with 170MB HDD 
> 
> 
> > I definitely agree about the performance issue.  A 486sx with 18 megs of ram
> > is going to be painful with X....I installed X with KDE on a Pentium 75 with
> > 40 megs of ram just to see what it would be like and it is not pretty.  Just
> > running X and no other applications digs the machine into 10-15 megs of
> > swap.
> 
> That's not X biting you, it's KDE . . . eliminate that, and you should 
> be able to run just about anything but emacs [ob. troll:  anyone who 
> has *ever* found a system with enough memory to keep emacs happy, raise 
> your hand . . . :) ]
> 
> hawk
> 
I figured that KDE was the 'hog'. And to correct an error, AMD
486dx4-enhanced at 100Mhz, is the proper id of the chip. Anyhow, I use
emacs all the time. Works fine, even when ssh to the box.
live-and-learn.

-d
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