Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 22:12:03 -0800 From: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Bob Kovacs <bkovacs@mindspring.com>, Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Free BSD Message-ID: <3C92E233.6050807@mac.com> References: <1016219646.3c9247fe203dd@webmail.neomedia.it> <3C928B17.5020300@mac.com> <p05101574b8b85ba8ca84@[10.0.1.9]>
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Brad Knowles wrote: > At 4:00 PM -0800 2002/03/15, paul beard wrote: > >> I think you're right about that, but it's hard to believe 128 Mb >> is insufficient for a desktop/client UI. How did Apple get away >> with their (admittedly simple ) UI in 1 Mb on the old all-in-one >> toasters? And come to that, I have 384 Mb in a 350 MHz G3 and OS >> X is still less than zippy, where OS 9 fairly flies by comparison. > > > That's like asking how did old mainframes with 8KB of core memory > function? They rarely ran KDE2, I'm sure ;-) > You think needing 384MB for FreeBSD is bad? By my calculations, I'd > need 2.7GB of RAM if I had to hold everything in RAM that currently has > virtual memory assigned to it, and I need at least 183MB just for the > RSS of all my currently running program -- and I really don't have that > much going. At least you have the option of running X without it being > layered on top of something like Aqua. > Thanks for the details.Here's a tangent on that: I have no idea what happens every hour on my OS X box, but it seems to spend a lot of cycles doing nothing, more so than the FreeBSD boxes I have. contrast pink (the G3 running OS X) http://www.mindspring.com/~pkdb/pdb/mrtg/pink/pink-load.html with red (a Athlon 700 with 256 Mb RAM) http://www.mindspring.com/~pkdb/pdb/mrtg/red/red-load.html or blue (a PII 233 with 64 Mb) http://www.mindspring.com/~pkdb/pdb/mrtg/blue/blue-load.html No one is sitting at it, it's just idling . . . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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