Re: X performance

:: My system is running Intel Pentium 500MHz with 80MB RAM. I have NT4
:: and RedHat8 installed on my system. I noticed windows performs much
:: faster than X in RedHat. The applications takes a bit longer to load
:: under linux as compared to in NT. I use 160MB swap space for linux.
:: What seems to be the problem? Why is there a difference in
:: performance? And sometimes Netscape closes by itself under my linux
:: X. Any suggestions for improving performance?

: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
: More RAM is surely the prescription for better performance.
: X and any apps running on top of it want to have a fair bit of memory.
: Note that you would likely find performance would _improve_ if you
: upgraded memory to 256MB and dropped to a 200MHz CPU.

My experience and measurements show that X, a window manger,
mozilla, and a mail client, would all fit in 80 mb with
room to spare. Therefore, performance would improve
more by simply avoiding kde or gnome.

I agree that if you insist on using kde/gnome, especially if OpenOffice
is also used, upgrading to 256kb is so good an idea that it's
essentially required. But the web browsing and email reading
under X described in the original post easily fit in 80kb.


Wayne Throop [email]throopw@sheol.org[/email] [url]http://sheol.org/throopw[/url]

Wayne Throop wrote:
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> My experience and measurements show that X, a window manger,
> mozilla, and a mail client, would all fit in 80 mb with
> room to spare.[/color]

I have to disagree. Mozilla (1.2.1) alone has an ugly habit of using
around 120 Mb on my system. Switching to using Galeon for browsing (and
only using Mozilla as a news reader) gave a ~30 Mb lower memory footprint.

Jacob
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In article <3F475146.5060802@nbi.dk>, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:[color=blue]
> Wayne Throop wrote:
>[color=green]
>> My experience and measurements show that X, a window manger,
>> mozilla, and a mail client, would all fit in 80 mb with
>> room to spare.[/color]
>
> I have to disagree. Mozilla (1.2.1) alone has an ugly habit of using
> around 120 Mb on my system. Switching to using Galeon for browsing (and
> only using Mozilla as a news reader) gave a ~30 Mb lower memory footprint.[/color]

(Set followup to comp.os.linux.misc due to excessive cross-posting.)

What makes you think that Mozilla (even the outdated version 1.2)
occupies 120 MB? Did you do a 'free' command before and after starting?
I see about 10 MB.

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Dave Brown Austin, TX