[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> So I start out using over 90 Mb RAM.
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You must take so's into account. An xterm does not take 4M, but 'only'
about 1M, the rest is shared with others.
> I have 128 Mb RAM,
Enough. We are currently working with three persons on such a machine:
one on the console, and two others over ethernet, all of us using KDE
and surfing with netscape - concurrently!. No swap used. Point.
The only time when you want to have more RAM on a single-user machine is
when you do _very_ massive compiling on SMP boxes.
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> Could
> bad RAM increase the RAM requirements of X, GNOME, and applications?
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No, it decreases stability.
Marc
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