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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

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.