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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!uwm.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!usenet From: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com (Burton Sampley) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: minimum system requirements for freebsd Date: 28 Jan 1997 00:26:15 GMT Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5cjh37$bat@nntp1.best.com> References: <5cisbp$nb@synge.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsampley.vip.best.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.7 To: percy@maths.tcd.ie (Julian Price) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34575 In article <5cisbp$nb@synge.maths.tcd.ie>, percy@maths.tcd.ie (Julian Price) writes: > I'm wondering what the minimum system requirements for freebsd are? I know > the handbook says 486, 8Mb (to run X), but I don't think this is really > enough. > I am running 2.1.5-STABLE on a 486DX2/66 (clocked to 80MHz), with 12Mb RAM, > a 1Mb PCI graphics card and a 500Mb Hdd (26Mb of swap) and I am continually > having problems: > > - When I use the java compiler and try and quit out of netscape, or reload > netscape, either the compiler gets killed or X gets killed. > - Sometimes when I change screens (fvwm) processes get killed. > - My disk seems to be swapping almost continually at times which slows things > down to a crawl. > > It is fairly annoying as I'm trying to write an applet which needs to be > compiled fairly regularly (about 1500 lines) and I have to reload netscape > each time I compile. > > Julian You might want to check the amount of memory cashe Netscape is setup for. Maybe you're attempting to keep too much in the cashe. You also might try Top. Run it a couple of times to find out which program is hogging your memory. -- Burton Sampley Email: bsampley@best.com | home page: http://www.best.com/~bsampley