Re: Software For Book Writing
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:57:15AM +0100, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:40:20PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> Surprisingly, from a very limited test on beige G3 mac machines (the
> above tests were instead on a pentium mmx 200 machine), I expect that
> lenny should NON be slower than etch or sarge (for console only use and
> with the tunings above), provided that the ram (and disk space) is
> sufficient.
There also seems to be a problem with the ideal of "provided that the
ram is sufficient". A direct comparison would be with identical ram. I
don't know how much ram Lenny's installer will need. Etch's needed more
than 32 MB but 64 MB was barely adequate. I just installed Etch on a
box with 96 MB, base install only, then ran top in one VT with aptitude
in another. I noticed during package install that dpkg hits swap.
At some point I'll put OpenBSD 4.4 on that box and see what happens with
pkg_add.
Doug.
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