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by **Greg Haye** » Tue, 02 Sep 1997 04:00:00

I have just installed Sco Openserver 5.0.4 onto a Pentium 166,
1.2GB disk with 32MB SDRAM (32MB being recommended in the manual).
However, 32MB doesnt seem to be enough, as the desktop (xDesktop ver
3.6.3) is having problems painting windows on the screen, and it is slow
at doing this.

Has anyone experienced this problem? Do I need to alter any
system configuration to make the desktop run faster or do I
simply have to install more memory?
If the latter is so, would 48MB be enough or should I make it
to 64MB?

Any help welcome.

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Greg Hayes

by **Bela Lubki** » Tue, 02 Sep 1997 04:00:00

> I have just installed Sco Openserver 5.0.4 onto a Pentium 166,
> 1.2GB disk with 32MB SDRAM (32MB being recommended in the manual).
> However, 32MB doesnt seem to be enough, as the desktop (xDesktop ver
> 3.6.3) is having problems painting windows on the screen, and it is slow
> at doing this.

When you say "having problems ... and ... slow", I imagine you mean
there's something other than slowness. "problems", as it were. But I
find myself unable to read your mind over the Internet, to figure out
what you actually mean by those words.

32MB should be enough for OpenServer. It would be somewhat faster with
64MB, but so much that you would be asking this question...

If the system is having drawing problems, the most important information
is probably the brand and model of the video board, and the name and
resolution of the video driver you're using. Other hardware details may
also turn out to be important. Be as specific as possible both about
problem details and software & hardware configuration.

Quote:>Bela<

by **Tom Parson** » Wed, 03 Sep 1997 04:00:00

Quote:Greg Hayes writes:
>I have just installed Sco Openserver 5.0.4 onto a Pentium 166,
>1.2GB disk with 32MB SDRAM (32MB being recommended in the manual).
>However, 32MB doesnt seem to be enough, as the desktop (xDesktop ver
>3.6.3) is having problems painting windows on the screen, and it is slow
>at doing this.

>Has anyone experienced this problem? Do I need to alter any
>system configuration to make the desktop run faster or do I
>simply have to install more memory?
>If the latter is so, would 48MB be enough or should I make it
>to 64MB?

32 meg is sufficient, even with a baseline video card, provided you don't
try to run a large number of windows. I've done quite a bit on a 486-66
with 20 meg and scsi devices.

A 1.2 gig hard drive sounds like an EIDE device and it could easily be
much of the problem. The single user technology of these devices becomes
much more evident when you start swapping or get into a heavy page mode.
One of the more interesting conversations at Forum97 was about bringing
EIDE systems to a standstill with a "paging storm" by opening
a large number of windows on the desktop.

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