On Wednesday 09 April 2003 07:19, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > Which is why I say that for practical purposes, it appears that 256MB is a > reasonable amount of RAM, in my opinion. Unless you run just only kmail + > one instance of konqueror and noth more. Then 128MB might be allright. > Which does not mean that it does not work with less. But it can cause a lot > of paging and swapping and thus gives a slow system, no matter how many MHz > there is in the processor.
Nowadays my pentium 133 has 80 megs ram, but I ran it with 48. It swaps, but not until the point that it is not useful anymore. I find the memory reqirements of kde also excessive, but kde still isn't Windows Xp :) > KDE 2.2 is a different animal altogether. On small machines that works much > better. I even run single KDE 3.1 applications on my 100MHz pentium > firewall machine. (kmyfirewall, and sometimes konsole. Nothing else of KDE > is installed on it. Something that can't be done with the official SID KDE) Why not? -- Frank Van Damme | "Saying 8MB of RAM doesn't do as much anymore is http://www. | like saying a gallon of water holds more than it openstandaarden.be | did in 1988." --George Adkins
