In article <MUTS.93Jun20232921@muts.hacktic.nl> muts@muts.hacktic.nl (Peter Mutsaers) writes:
   On 20 Jun 1993 17:31:50 +0100, pd@doc.ic.ac.uk (Philip Daniels) said:

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>   > XWindows is a great thing but it requires a lot of system. The mips
>   >machine I had came originally with 32 meg of ram. It ran so-so until
>   >I upgraded to 64 megs. Then it was great. Running coherent OR linux
>
>     PD>   Depends on what you are doing doesn't it? Actually, one could
>     PD> make a very good argument for running Linux on such a system -
>     PD> since it is so small and tight it would make far better use of
>     PD> the available hardware. I know that I could run X very
>     PD> satisfactorily in 32Mb, thanks.

We saw comparable problems on SGI--systems. You have to have at least
64 MBytes to work in a reasonable manner on these systems.

Perhaps you pay for RISC. We have sawn .text--segments beeing 4 times
larger than those on a SUN/3 built from the same sources.  (As allways
SGI denies this behaviour, but all SGI--systems here around were to be
upgraded to 64 MBytes to 128 MBytes RAM.]

And --- you need more buffers. I/O performance of SGIs does not seem
to be able to cope with such raw CPU power.

Lack of real shared libs  makes some programs enormous memory hogs.


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>   It is true that X requires much RAM, but people tend to exaggerate
>   more and more. 32 MB, even 64?!?

NO! THAT seems to be particular to MIPS.  

best, adams