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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!isar.de!krabat!leo From: leo@krabat.marco.de (Matthias Pfaller) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Extremely low memory system Message-ID: <4888@krabat.marco.de> Date: 20 Sep 95 09:35:36 GMT References: <43a1u6$572@tuba.cit.cornell.edu> <43bru9$g3p@n.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> <MICHAELV.95Sep17014327@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <4881@krabat.marco.de> <43klm7$2us@uriah.heep.sax.de> Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Organization: marco GmbH, D-85221 Dachau Lines: 15 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:60355 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:6092 J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: > Matthias Pfaller <leo@krabat.marco.de> wrote: > >If you are using the machines as Xterminals *only*, 4mb is enough. > I hope your xterminals will never fall over an application attempting > to pump way too many pixmaps into the server... I know that you can bring the machine by down doing this, but its good enough to run several xterms, ghostview, xtex, ... Note that the SLC is a monochrome machine. That helps and it reduces the temptation to run something like xv... -- leo@dachau.marco.de in real life: Matthias Pfaller marco GmbH, 85221 Dachau, Germany tel: +49 8131 516142