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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newshost.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!isar.de!krabat!leo From: leo@krabat.marco.de (Matthias Pfaller) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Extremely low memory system Message-ID: <4881@krabat.marco.de> Date: 18 Sep 95 10:00:27 GMT References: <43a1u6$572@tuba.cit.cornell.edu> <43bru9$g3p@n.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> <MICHAELV.95Sep17014327@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Organization: marco GmbH, D-85221 Dachau Lines: 15 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:61617 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:6479 Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com) wrote: > I wouldn't recommend anything less than 8MB for X. And, 16MB is > really where it starts getting "nice". If you are using the machines as Xterminals *only*, 4mb is enough. We are running a Sparc SLC (with sunos4) as a xterminal. It has no disk and only 4mb ram. There is *no* swapspace configured. It really works well. At home I had a linux box used as a xterminal for my pc532 running NetBSD. It run quite well with 5mb of ram. But these machines are running the xserver, init and that's all. Matthias -- leo@dachau.marco.de in real life: Matthias Pfaller marco GmbH, 85221 Dachau, Germany tel: +49 8131 516142