gichan@blake.u.washington.edu (Gilbert Chan) (08/23/90)
I'm posting this article for a friend, PLEASE reply to him direct at bchan@ddn-eur.ddn.mil. Thank you. -------------------------------------------------------------------- I am planning on ungrading my Gateway 33-386 w/4 Megs of RAM to run ESIX rev D. Which one will give me a faster system: 1) 12 Megs of RAM 2) 4 Megs of RAM + a 33-387. Please email direct and I'll summarize if there're enough interests. Thanx, Brian Chan Stuttgart, FRG email:bchan@ddn-eur.ddn.mil
chandler@beagle.uucp (Jim Chandler) (08/24/90)
In article <6637@milton.u.washington.edu>, gichan@blake.u.washington.edu (Gilbert Chan) writes: > I am planning on ungrading my Gateway 33-386 w/4 Megs of RAM to run ESIX > rev D. > > Which one will give me a faster system: > > 1) 12 Megs of RAM > 2) 4 Megs of RAM + a 33-387. > Get the 8 additional megs. With only 4 Megs the machine will swap like crazy and X will be just about useless. I run X under 8 Megs total with no problem but 4 was a nightmare. BTW, I am also running ESIX Rev. D. -- Jim Chandler asuvax!xroads!beagle!chandler chandler@beagle.UUCP
heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com (08/27/90)
In article <208@beagle.uucp> chandler@beagle.uucp (Jim Chandler) writes: >> >Get the 8 additional megs. With only 4 Megs the machine will swap like >crazy and X will be just about useless. I run X under 8 Megs total with >no problem but 4 was a nightmare. BTW, I am also running ESIX Rev. D. > Yeah -- with my system (8megs), I found that I have to work to make it swap at all. If I run X, and several compiles, and bbs software, it comes down to a few hundred k free, and then I can get it to swap by opening a couple more xterms. At that point, the system is so slow I wouldn't want to work with it anyway ... It looks like 8mb is a good number for most normal apps. -- Bill Heiser Work: heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com {decuac,necntc,uunet}!rayssd!tdw201!heiser Home: Bill.Heiser@f240.n322.z1.fidonet.org (Fidonet 1:322/240) The Think_Tank BBS (508)655-3848 1200/2400/9600-HST Other: 75106.2332@compuserve.com Other: heiser@world.std.com (Public Access Unix)