Subject: Kdrive and XFree86
To: None <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
From: Jeff Bolle <jbolle@bucknell.edu>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 02/22/2003 13:46:05
I've been reading some about this Kdrive server and it looks
interesting. How big is our current x server? Basically I am trying to
determine whether it would be worth my time to take a look at trying to
port it. Thanks.
Jeff
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 11:41, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:28:58AM -0500, Miles Nordin wrote:
> > >>>>> "ms" == Mattias Sandstrom <mattias@beauty.se> writes:
> >
> > ms> can i expect to get out of 32 megs?
> >
> > ms> rxvt, dillo and abiword at the same time,
> >
> > Here's a screenshot of 'top' on my 32MB MC-R700A if it helps you. As
>
> <snip>
>
> > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
> > 351 carton 2 0 3716K 2712K select 28:47 8.35% 8.35% Xhpc
>
>
> Matthias, you may find it worthwhile to look into Kdrive/TinyX for your x86
> laptop. This is a stripped-down version of X, which you can compile from the
> regular XFree86 sources. supposedly the binary is <1MB; and while executing
> it's not much larger. haven't gotten around to messing with it myself, so I
> don't really know anything more about it.
>
> I'm certain it won't work on hpcmips tho. :)
>
> Carl Soderstrom.
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Jeff Bolle <jbolle@bucknell.edu>