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Old 18th October 2008
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If you could fit a firefox instance full of tabs into a FreeBSD+X.Org setup with even 32mb of memory without needing to swap, I'd eat my hat ;=). Manage to fit an emacs grand masters session into 16mb, and I'll call guinness!

I've heard that the FreeBSD kernel needs to see at least 32mb of system memory now're days or it'll throw up it's hands in horror so to speak, but heavy-weights like firefox/openoffice/kde/etc would blow through even that much memory fast, good thing for virtual memory eh? If I had to live with 64mb of RAM, I'd probably replace the X/WM combo with GNU Screen + zsh.
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