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From: taob@zot.io.org (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ... (FreeBSD extremely mem/swap hungry)
Date: 24 May 1996 01:02:36 -0400
Organization: Internex Online Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4n0dhd$cff@agate.berkeley.edu> <3194622D.41C67EA6@Ami-chan.res.cmu.edu> <31A52667.794BDF32@zeus.co.uk>
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In article <31A52667.794BDF32@zeus.co.uk>, Damian Reeves <damian@zeus.co.uk> wrote:
>
>On replacing with BSD, and copying over the .xsession files etc., by the
>time the Xserver and xterms have started, 50MB of swap is in use!!!
One has to ask about your server setup, the version of XFree86,
use of memory filesystems, kernel configuration, etc. Running X with
a few xterms and xbiff (as you describe) will run on an 8MB machine
and about an equal amount of swap.
Our X server is a 486DX4/100 with 64MB and provides rarp,
bootparamd, NFS, X and xfs services to 5 Sun X terminals. Peak usage
usually consists of about 40 xterm windows, a handful of Netscape
3.0's along with all the shells, telnet/rlogins, mail and news readers
fired up inside the xterm windows. Swap allocation usually hovers
around 60 to 70MB, although swapping activity itself is low or non-
existent.
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net)
Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"