Re: VM performance

Riley Williams (rhw@BigFoot.Com)
Sun, 24 Jan 1999 20:51:13 +0000 (GMT)


Hi there.

>> Or maybe some option ("low mem?") that will turn off memory hogs
>> and go back to prior slower but less memory eating routines? If
>> this is possible?

> I have 8Mb machines. I expect them to be running 2.2.x well, it
> just may not be 2.2.x for very low values of X.

Well, I have an i486dx4/75 based notebook with 12M of RAM, and I can
report that 2.2.0-pre9 works fine on it in console mode, with the one
exception that the PCMCIA subsystem doesn't appear to work, so I can't
use my PCMCIA network adapter with it...

I can't yet report on using it with XFree86 since there's not enough
space on the hard drive to install that, but I'm hoping to upgrade the
hard drive to a 3.5G or larger drive late next week...

Best wishes from Riley.

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