My experience: 64 MB is minimum for Linux running X (with nothing else). Meaning, it will use up 64MB with kernel and X(KDE or GNOME) alone. If you use a lighter window manager, maybe your 64MB will go further. If you start other programs, like say Netscape or Koffice or a couple of bash x-terminal shells, then your machine will start swapping.
> "Seak, Teng-Fong" wrote: > > A question of curiosity: how to know in what memory (physical or > > virtual) a programme's code and its data/stack resides? > > > > Why do I ask such a question? Sometimes when I quit a programme, > > the hard disk is very "active" for quite a while. It's just like > > something is read/written to it while the programme is quitting. But if > > the programme resides totally in physical memory, there shouldn't be > > such activity. The PC has got 64 MB. Don't tell me Linux kernel and X > > use up all physical memory! > > > > Fong
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