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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!not-for-mail From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is 4MB enough? Date: 19 Sep 1995 15:10:23 +0200 Organization: EUnet Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 20 Message-ID: <43mffv$t94@Germany.EU.net> References: <43mbad$fj3@bell.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net In article <43mbad$fj3@bell.maths.tcd.ie>, creilly@maths.tcd.ie (Colman Reilly) writes: |> Is a 486DX66 with 4MB enough to run a real system? I have no intention Depends on what you think a real system is. |> to run X on it, though I would like to be able to run some compilations. |> It wouldn't be on the net so there would be almost no daemons running. Your compiler may start pageing and swapping; I'd advise against cc -pipe. |> Would it work at all, or do I absolutely need 8MB? I've seen 386bsd0.x up and running on 2Megs, and since the invention of shared libs I'd expect more to fit into memory than before. Alas, I have 8Megs now and ghostscript tends to want about 9, so I'll try and get those other four back into the system... Bernard