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Mark Evans wrote:On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:38:08AM +0100, Nick Kew wrote:Are those seriously old pentiums?66 MHz with 32 Mb RAM. My server is a 1Gig (chipset forgotten) with 256.Unless you have only a few terminals you really want as much RAM as possible in the server.If I show my age I remember 256MB being far more than perfectly adequate for strings of 5 X terminals all power users. But Mark
I remember when couple of 386s was good enough for a whole university campus including a room full of graphical workstations. Indeed I don't think you could physically fit 256M into a Sequent Symetry.
is right, these day Office suites and browsers seem to gobble it all up. We were using Applixware at the time, so I assume it is
Things don't work well when you have a load average approaching 30.
probably still less greedy, as I don't think it has changed much.
It also matters if the possibility of running multiple instances of the program was considered in the design. Given that it is generally easier to get something designed to be multi user to work with one user than it is to get something designed to be single user to work well in a multi user environment. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.