Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:01:00 +0100 | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: mem=16MB laptop testing |
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> (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.
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.
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