Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote: > Well, a quick look in top shows that it's using 200Mb > of ram, 0 swap, with only a single xterm open! how hungry > is OSX? this machine runs pretty nicely, but it is a 1.6Ghz > P4.
X itself consumes a huge amount of memory. Mine takes about 250Mb on a 512Mb machine. Thats before I put my Aqua themes in (in my case its just themes so the impact on system resources is pretty minimal). Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
