At 07:51 AM 2/7/00 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi Paul!
>
>I have a similar setup on one of my machines and did the following test last
>night:
>Yanked out 2 simms so I had only 32mb.
>Extremely bad performance, heaps of disk thrashing, opening Netscape took
>yonks
>and it ran like a dog :-(
>Put back the simms so I had 64mb.
That's because typical usage of KDE means machine running X server is using
about 50 megs. If you have less it'll thrash on disk. If you have more,
peachy keen.
Whereas with Windows, typical usage uses from 100-150megs, and unless you
have 192 or 256M you'll thrash regularly!
Which do you prefer ;-)
KDE isn't bloated. It is honestly not really possible to run a real, modern
graphical environment at high resolutions with less than about 50M. It's
Windows that's bloated. The various lean mean WMs are WMs, but not full
blown desktop environments, so of course they are smaller.
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