On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 14:20, Seneca wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 01:58:14PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 13:39, Seneca wrote: > > > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:50:32AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > > > On 2002.05.13 05:18 Miroslav Mazurek wrote: [snip] > > > I currently run X (4.1.0) on a P100 with 16M RAM and a 2.4 kernel. I > > > haven't made a final decision yet on my window manager (an experiment > > > with Enlightenment was a _big_ miskate), but it runs alot faster for me > > > when all I use X for is to hold a dozen xterms, and then use them to > > > hold non-X programs (ftp in one, mutt in another, links, vim, and a few > > > other programs). > > > > Why not just use more than the standard 6 virtual consoles? That > > would be _much_ more memory efficient than X 4.1.0. > > The standard 6 are already in use for other stuff (and yes, I do know > about ^Z), and I need X anyway to connect to a proxy.
Ah, well. You mean the way that Netscape connects thru web proxies? [snip] > > and that must count for something, even if the swap files _are_ > > getting seriously excersied. > > The swapping has turned this system into a cron-operated alarmclock. ???? You mean that, every X hours, there's so much disk activity that it wakes you up? -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "I have created a government of whirled peas..." | | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 12-May-2002, CNN, Larry King Live | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
