To increase speed of operation UNIX/Linux tries to load alot into RAM. I'm
running RH 6 with X and Gnome and typically I've got half of my 128 tied up.
Don't worry about it unless you start seeing alot of swapping going on. I am
running at home with 24M ram and it works fine too, without much swapping (of
course there I'm running fvwm2 and not GNOME). GNOME is a bit of a memory
hog, and I couldn't run it without a lot of swapping with only 24M. Linux has
a tendency to fill the RAM whatever it is. As I said, don't worry unless you
see a large degredation in performance. With 128M you should do just fine.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've been reviewing my RAM situation and one issue is the amount of RAM
> needed to get my system up and running. I'd appreciate feedback indicating
> that my experiences are not out of line with those of others.
>
> Running RH 6.0, to boot to a command prompt takes about 27 Mb. Then to
> startX adds about 25 Mb more. I typically keep three applications running:
> FileRunner (4 Mb), emacs (10 Mb), Netscape (20 Mb), and altogether, four
> xterms (about 4 Mb). I'm running GNOME. So I start out using over 90 Mb
> RAM.
>
> How does this compare with the experience of others. I have 128 Mb RAM,
> but I know there is a flakey chip, and place to replace it shortly. Could
> bad RAM increase the RAM requirements of X, GNOME, and applications?
>
> Haines Brown
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