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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: percy@maths.tcd.ie (Julian Price) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: minimum system requirements for freebsd Date: 27 Jan 1997 18:32:25 -0000 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 18 Sender: mathnews@synge.maths.tcd.ie Message-ID: <5cisbp$nb@synge.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: synge.maths.tcd.ie Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34557 I'm wondering what the minimum system requirements for freebsd are? I know the handbook says 486, 8Mb (to run X), but I don't think this is really enough. I am running 2.1.5-STABLE on a 486DX2/66 (clocked to 80MHz), with 12Mb RAM, a 1Mb PCI graphics card and a 500Mb Hdd (26Mb of swap) and I am continually having problems: - When I use the java compiler and try and quit out of netscape, or reload netscape, either the compiler gets killed or X gets killed. - Sometimes when I change screens (fvwm) processes get killed. - My disk seems to be swapping almost continually at times which slows things down to a crawl. It is fairly annoying as I'm trying to write an applet which needs to be compiled fairly regularly (about 1500 lines) and I have to reload netscape each time I compile. Julian