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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!ogicse!flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU!gaia.ucs.orst.edu!wsrcc.com!hack.dragoman.com!wetware!spunky.RedBrick.COM!psinntp!psinntp!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: XFree1-2 + 386BSD performance Message-ID: <C7Doot.LIr@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> Date: 21 May 93 13:12:28 GMT Article-I.D.: sugar.C7Doot.LIr References: <1993May12.025731.29769@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <PCG.93May16215315@decb.aber.ac.uk> <1t79hk$sr@turin.research.otc.com.au> Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Lines: 26 In article <1t79hk$sr@turin.research.otc.com.au> alexk@swdev.research.otc.com.au (Alex Kowalenko) writes: > >A couple of Xterms eat up *megabytes*? I knew X was fat, but this is just > >downright ridiculous. What's it doing with all that memory? > I thought it was common knowledge that running X server and some X > applications comusme a fair proportion of a 8MB machine, and forget > compiling something significant (ie. an Xview program) with X running. That's nice, but *WHY*? On a single box, it's actually doing *less* work than Intuition on the Amiga (which has "widget" handling in the server, as well as guaranteed backing store), and that runs fine in 768K (RAM plus ROM). The Amiga equivalent of an Xterm eats 10K. I'm willing to spend 2 or 4 times the memory for a more versatile system, but we're talking a factor of 100 or more. > Do you serve pickled herrings? No, our customers are expected to be sober. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Har du kramat din varg idag? 'U` "Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge."