I think it all depends on the number of windows lurking.....

Mind you solaris 8 (or rather CDE) does like 128M+ of memory.
My 50MHz sun4m system with 64Mb is a bit sluggish at times!
(especially running netscape)

dsl@teepee:-ksh$ ps -ylp 268
 S   UID   PID  PPID  C PRI NI   RSS     SZ    WCHAN TTY      TIME CMD
 S  2410   268   246  0  40 20  6400  10752 f59354fa ?        0:24 Xsun

    David

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
To: Brian Hechinger <wonko@arkham.ws>
Cc: Harald Barth <haba@pdc.kth.se>; <wysoft@hotmail.com>; <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: Ultra 1 Performance


> Brian Hechinger said:
> 
> >Solaris itself doesn't need more memory.  it'll run fine in 128M, it's when
> >you start up X that you run into trouble:
> >
> >   PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME    CPU COMMAND
> >   371 root       1  48    0   95M   63M sleep   17.5H  0.19% Xsun
> >
> >95M of memory.  sheesh.
> 
> That's kind of odd.
> 
> On an SS4 running Solaris 8:
> 
>    PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME    CPU COMMAND
>    277 root       1  59    0   27M 6640K sleep    0:16  1.61% Xsun
> 
> Memory: 96M real, 46M free, 26M swap in use, 557M swap free
> 
> -- 
> Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  www.rmkhome.com