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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!nntp.crl.com!news5.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: minimum system requirements for freebsd Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 15:49:31 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 11 Message-ID: <32EE908B.794BDF32@FreeBSD.org> References: <5cisbp$nb@synge.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: Julian Price <percy@maths.tcd.ie> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34657 Julian Price wrote: > 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: I'm not surprised. I'd have configured at least 64MB of swap for what you want to do. Netscape and java are enormous pigs, to say nothing of X itself. :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project