Re: mem=16MB laptop testing

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

At some point in the past, I wrote:
>> (g) X isn't terribly swift; it's slower than I remember old Sun IPC's
>> 	being, though they had 24MB RAM. OTOH luserspace is much more
>> 	bloated these days. zsh alone is at least 3 times the size of
>> 	ksh, which I used back then. fvwm2 is a lot bigger than fvwm1.
>> 	And so on and so forth. I guess the upshot is "unbloating" the
>> 	kernel wouldn't do much good anyway, since luserspace isn't in
>> 	any kind of shape to run in this kind of environment anymore either.

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 12:01:00PM +0100, John Bradford wrote:
> Depends on what you consider usable.  I thought X worked pretty well
> in swapless 8MB last time I tried it, (last year, around 2.5.40).
> Admittedly that was only running a few xterms locally.  A 4MB + 20MB
> swap box was suprisingly usable for fairly intense remote applications
> over a compressed 9600 bps serial link.

It's not that it's particularly unusable, it was merely substantially
slower than vaguely comparable machines I remember from way back when.


-- wli