Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:20:59 +0100 | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: mem=16MB laptop testing |
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Quote from William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>: > 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.
Ah, OK. Quite possibly my subjective observation was biased, simply because I was expecting it to perform badly :-).
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