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From: mcampbel@erols.com (M. Campbell or Lee Cremeans )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: minimum system requirements for freebsd
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 19:20:37 GMT
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>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. :-)

You said it.  I was running Corel Office for Java on Netscape 3.01 the
other day, and my system ate almost 50MB of swap!  I had like two
xterms and two vterms open at the time on top of that--I can usually
get away with about 15MB of swap in that config without Netscape
going..and NO swap with X disabled.  (I have 24MB RAM)

Lee C.