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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: Abiword in BL3: Was Re: [BL] BL3.32
  • Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 20:49:45 +0000 (UTC)

BL3.32 kernel occupies about 1.5M.

Abiword 3.5M, a memory hog. It had about 1.3M (8M -5.2M -1.5M) to work in and was abysmally slow.

At 800 resolution, 15-bit color, icewm 1M, links2 2.4M.

Links2 works beautifully and it is loaded while I am also telnetted.


On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, sindi keesan wrote:

I checked with top while running Abiword in an rxvt at 640x480 15-bit color, without any WM. Abiword takes up about 3.5M, everything other than the kernel 5256K when Abiword is not even doing anything. If the kernel takes up about 2MB this leaves only 700K for Abiword to work in, even less with a window manager loaded, which means a lot of shuffling about.

Not 2MB, only 1.5M for kernel. Small kernel (the one in the zip file).
Does the pentium-optimized kernel (which is smaller than the one for 486) take up more or less RAM?

Abiword worked fine in 12MB RAM no swap file.

The program loads quickly but runs really slowly in 8MB RAM.

Anyway, 12MB RAM should work fine and if Abiword comes out in a fewer-color version it will fit nicely on my 486 laptop with 12MB RAM and fewer colors.




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