On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 09:50 -0400, J. Van Lierde wrote: --snip-- > I don't think you'll find Java development on such a system to be very > rewarding. I'll definitely second that. And wrt to the OP's initial question, a machine with 64MB of RAM is not going to run X very well, especially with any newer set of interface-type apps. > I have sarge running on a 733Mhz P3 (upgraded from 450MHz) with 384MB of > RAM. At 450MHz, I found the Netbeans IDE (and the system overall) to be > decidedly creaky. The 733MHz CPU perked things up in general. > > The second problem is that both Netbeans and Eclipse go to disk a lot. I > don't think it's paging (surely not with 384MB), I think these Depending on how much other stuff you have running, it could very well be paging. If I start up Eclipse and open a few different views with 4 or 5 source files open, the memory footprint gets very close if not pretty well over 256 MB. Throw in X, a wm, and all the basic system services and that 384 MB is nothing. For anyone doing serious Eclipse work I would very much recommend having at least 768 MB or RAM with 256 MB pre-allocated to Eclipse. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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