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Started by Earl Killian
Tue, 01 Mar 1988 00:14
server size
Author: Earl Killian
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1988 00:14
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1988 00:14
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I have a request for someone with the various flavors of window servers. Please do a Unix size command on optimized X11, NeWS 1.1, and combined NeWS/X11 servers and send me the results (or post if you like). Memory requirements of the running servers would also be useful (e.g. do "ps u" and look at the SZ field). I'm curious how comparable X11 and NeWS are in their memory requirements.
Re: server size
Author: Ken Lee
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1988 20:33
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1988 20:33
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Yes, server size is a big problem on little machines. NeWS is normally much faster than X on Suns, but I tried it on a 2MB Sun 3/50 once and NeWS crawled. X was worse. I think you need at least 4MB, preferably 8MB or more, to run a server based window system. On smaller systems, you're probably better off using kernel based window systems like SunWindows (aka Suntools, SunView1). On my current system, a MicroVax, I have this: % size /usr/bin/X text data bss dec hex 332800 31744 21972 386516 5e5d4 This is the qdss X server. Ken
Re: server size
Author: Mike Hoegeman
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 1988 21:35
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 1988 21:35
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>Please do a Unix size command on optimized X11, NeWS 1.1, >and combined NeWS/X11 servers and send me the results (or post if you >like). Memory requirements of the running servers would also be >useful (e.g. do "ps u" and look at the SZ field). >I'm curious how comparable X11 and NeWS are in their memory >requirements. I would take this kind of rough estimate memory check with a huge grain of salt since X and NeWS are rather different in the way they do things. You can download all kinds of stuff into the news server which most likely will make it use "more" memory than the X server. On the other hand, it would tend to make NeWS applications quite a bit smaller then X applications. In short simple ps's and size's are not going to tell you much. -mike
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