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I have run DSL with 64 meg but normally with 128 meg.  The only application I 
know of that uses all the memory reserved (and the virtual processor) is 
Firefox.
        
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From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, James Miller wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> >
> >> IIRC DSL needs a minumum of 64mb (or is it 128mb?).
> >
> > Last I checked they were claiming 32mb.  Based on my experience with it
> > though, it would probably be too slow to be tolerable with only 32.  A
> > swap partition might make it more useable at that amount of RAM.
> >
> > James
> 
> We have used it okay with 32MB, but it was not happy with 24MB.  Our 
> laptop computers have 16MB and 24MB.  Please remind me how to go to CLI 
> instead of X when you boot, other than telling it to use VESAFB when you 
> don't have that.  That should save some RAM.  What does DSL do with all 
> that RAM?
> 
> Sindi
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