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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SYSVSHM in 2.0.5R
Date: 20 Jul 1995 11:02:08 +0200
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M. L. Dodson <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu> wrote:
>Does
>
>options	SYSVSHM
>
>work in 2.0.5R?  And would it speed up X on an 8MB 486?

Yes.  No (except you've got app's that make actually use of the
MIT-SHM server extension).

Btw., your machine is likely to starve on missing free RAM.

-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)