From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 7 19:23:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A640016A41C for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 19:23:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu (mxout4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ACF343D48 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 19:23:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from dante68.u.washington.edu (dante68.u.washington.edu [140.142.15.49]) by mxout4.cac.washington.edu (8.13.4+UW05.04/8.13.4+UW05.05) with ESMTP id j67JNRXP026553 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 7 Jul 2005 12:23:27 -0700 Received: from localhost (youshi10@localhost) by dante68.u.washington.edu (8.13.4+UW05.03/8.13.4+UW05.05) with ESMTP id j67JNRB8086446; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 12:23:27 -0700 Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 12:23:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Garrett Cooper To: hzs202@nyu.edu In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: talk@lists.nycbug.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minimum Install w/ X11 on Virtual PC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 19:23:32 -0000 Hakim, You're pressing it a bit considering that X does use up a bit of resources, and considering that you have an additional system overlayed on top of Windows (I assume you are using XP), you will want to actually go out and get more RAM. You are unfortunately working with conditions which may become extremely laggy for you and will ultimately lead to less than desired performance. I know because I ran Windows XP on vmware, and having another Virtual machine running on your computer eats up a lot of resources, and hence decreases the peak usable performance of the system greatly. Either get at least 512 Mb Ram, or consider switching from Gnome/KDE to something doable like Fluxbox, FWM2, or XFCE since they don't use nearly as much memory as Gnome/KDE. -Garrett On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Hakim Singhji wrote: > Hi All, > > I am going to install FreeBSD 5.4 on MS Virtual PC. My PC (IBM > Thinkpad R51) only has 256MB of RAM available. I do not want to > install Gnome or KDE however I would like the benefits of colors in > text editors, backgrounds, etc. as this is going to be a testing > environment for application development. > > What is the best way to go about doing this? In VPC I allot > approximately 96MB of RAM for the Virtual Machine and I was thinking > 256MB for virtual SWAP (would that even help... the default is like > 166MB for 96MB of RAM... or something like that. > > Again... how can I get the most out of x11/xorg with out using a great > deal of resources? > > Best, > -- > Hakim Singhji > hzs202@nyu.edu > "Where danger is, grows the saving power also" (qtd. in Heidegger 28). > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >