[SunRescue] Cooling in SS4/SS5/SS10?

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, James Lockwood wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, User Bobkeys BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak wrote:
> 
> > In Sol8, which is the preferred windowz environment, Openwindows or
> > CDE, and why one or the other?
> 
> Whatever you like.  If you prefer another window manager (twm, fvwm, etc)
> then you can run that instead.

On my Sun accounts at school I run wm2 for maximimum speed.  These are
mostly 170mhz IPCs with 64megs of ram.  wm2 is faster that WindowMaker,
olwm and mwm (or whatever the CDE wm is called).  It isn't faster than
aewm, but aewm is a hair too low in features.

> > Is 64mb or 80mb of ram sufficient to be happy, or should I try to find
> > sticks to load it up to 128mb or 256mb?
> 
> Depends on what you're doing.  I would want more running netscape, Frame
> and SDRC IDEAS at one time but for a web browser and a pile of xterms
> you'll be fine.

In my experience, 64megs sucks under solaris 7 (and presumably 8).  I'd
assume that 80 is only a minimal improvement.  96 seems reasonably
comfterble under SunOS 5.5 (that Solaris 2.5, right?), as long as you
don't have too many netscape windows open (netscape seems to stress the
machine more than the 3D code that runs on the machine).

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Joshua Boyd