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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!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!voskovec.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!news.maxwell.syr.edu!worldnet.att.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news 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 Organization: This house? Are you kidding? Lines: 14 Message-ID: <5cqseb$g23@boursy.news.erols.com> References: <5cisbp$nb@synge.maths.tcd.ie> <32EE908B.794BDF32@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: man-as3s34.erols.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34753 "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.