Re: Small footprint window manager
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 14:20, Seneca wrote:
> On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 01:58:14PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 13:39, Seneca wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:50:32AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote:
> > > > On 2002.05.13 05:18 Miroslav Mazurek wrote:
[snip]
> > > I currently run X (4.1.0) on a P100 with 16M RAM and a 2.4 kernel. I
> > > haven't made a final decision yet on my window manager (an experiment
> > > with Enlightenment was a _big_ miskate), but it runs alot faster for me
> > > when all I use X for is to hold a dozen xterms, and then use them to
> > > hold non-X programs (ftp in one, mutt in another, links, vim, and a few
> > > other programs).
> >
> > Why not just use more than the standard 6 virtual consoles? That
> > would be _much_ more memory efficient than X 4.1.0.
>
> The standard 6 are already in use for other stuff (and yes, I do know
> about ^Z), and I need X anyway to connect to a proxy.
Ah, well. You mean the way that Netscape connects thru web proxies?
[snip]
> > and that must count for something, even if the swap files _are_
> > getting seriously excersied.
>
> The swapping has turned this system into a cron-operated alarmclock.
???? You mean that, every X hours, there's so much disk activity
that it wakes you up?
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