On Thursday 02 December 2004 13:33, steve_dum@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > While not quite the same comparison, I upgraded a RH 7.2 machine > and found that overall the amount of memory required for an idle > system with a gnome desktop open, increased by a factor of 4! > My aging laptop had 77M of ram and 200M of swap space. It ran I (wife actually) used to run RHL 6.2 ona Pentium 133 with 64 Mbytes of RAM. Now she has a Pentium III 550 with 256 Mb, I have an Athlon 1400 with 512 Mbytes and plan on trebling it. -- Cheers John Summerfield tourist pics: http://environmental.disaster.cds.merseine.nu/
