Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 18:11:58 -0400 From: Mark Hendriks <markh@lon.imag.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: alexkwan@pacific.net.hk Subject: Re: X-Window Manager for Small Size RAM Message-ID: <00041318192000.00249@mymachine.imag.net> References: <000701bfa4f1$d97bb520$4f1e40ca@alexkwan>
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On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Alex Kwan wrote: > Hi! > My FreeBsd Box was 4.0R am only have 32 MB RAM, > which X window managers are recommanded? Pretty much anything other than Gnome, actually. If you haven't already done so, rebuilding your kernel with only the drivers you do need will make more of a difference than your choice of window manager. Window managers run in user space, so they can be swapped, (but if you run Gnome on 32 MB RAM, it'll spend too much time swapping.) The kernel, on the other hand, can't be swapped, so unnecessary drivers just chew up memory. Mark Hendriks markh@lon.imag.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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