Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:52:45 10/29/01
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On October 29, 2001 at 00:48:10, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On October 28, 2001 at 21:20:45, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>That is going _way_ too far. I have linux + X running on an 8 meg 75 mhz >>pentium. And it runs just fine. I have it running on a 16 meg P5/133 as >>well. Win2k won't even _install_ on either of those two machines. > >I don't know how you do it. Back when I was using a 16MB P5/100, I got X running >and doing the simplest things, like running the calculator program, would cause >the machine to swap like mad. Yeah, I guess it worked, but I wouldn't call it >usable. (Wasn't as bad as when I tried to run OS/2 2 with 4MB RAM... doing >_anything_ would trigger a 5 minute swap-fest.) This was at a time when Win9x >worked with 4MB (albeit not well) and NT worked with 16MB. > >-Tom Not sure why you would have a problem. I have a kernel specifically configured for the old Toshiba laptop. And running a typical XFree86 setup. The machine is used primarily to run ethereal (a GUI version of tcpdump) as well as to compile C code. I don't see any swapping at all, although I am not running things like httpd, squid, are many of the other unnecessary daemons...
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