Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:08:20 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: mem=16MB laptop testing |
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At some point in the past, I wrote: >> (g) X isn't terribly swift; it's slower than I remember old Sun IPC's >> being, though they had 24MB RAM. OTOH luserspace is much more >> bloated these days. zsh alone is at least 3 times the size of >> ksh, which I used back then. fvwm2 is a lot bigger than fvwm1. >> And so on and so forth. I guess the upshot is "unbloating" the >> kernel wouldn't do much good anyway, since luserspace isn't in >> any kind of shape to run in this kind of environment anymore either.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 12:01:00PM +0100, John Bradford wrote: > Depends on what you consider usable. I thought X worked pretty well > in swapless 8MB last time I tried it, (last year, around 2.5.40). > Admittedly that was only running a few xterms locally. A 4MB + 20MB > swap box was suprisingly usable for fairly intense remote applications > over a compressed 9600 bps serial link.
It's not that it's particularly unusable, it was merely substantially slower than vaguely comparable machines I remember from way back when.
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