[K12OSN] Client Ram

Robert Arkiletian robark at gmail.com
Thu May 24 19:08:50 UTC 2007


On 5/23/07, Terrell Prude' Jr. <microman at cmosnetworks.com> wrote:
> I've found that you only need 32MB DRAM on your clients.  For several
> years, up to and including today, I run Pentium-166 clients with 32MB
> DRAM, and no, I don't have NFS swap turned on.  Not once has a client
> died on me...and I run a whole lot of Firefox sessions and other things,
> simultaneously, on one client (OpenOffice.org, The GIMP, multiple
> Konqueror sessions, GAIM, etc.).  Remember, this stuff runs on the
> server, not the client.  Heck, I've run ancient Power Mac 5260 and Power
> Mac 5500 clients with 32MB DRAM, and they work just fine.  So you're
> certainly safe with 64MB DRAM in your iPaqs
>

Curious Terrell, on your 32MB client:
what color depth were you using?
what kind of video card were you using?
how much ram did the video card have?

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Robert Arkiletian
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