The author found that FreeBSD 1.1.5 delivered satisfactory performance even with as frugal an installation as 8 MB of memory
The amount of memory required is another important configuration issue. While FreeBSD 1.1 could get by on 8 MB, this is no longer true for 2.0, particularly due the larger 3.1 X server binary. As a result, 12 MB is probably a sensible minimum memory size, with 16 MB being ample for ordinary X interactive use.
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The amount of memory required is another important configuration issue. While FreeBSD 1.1 could get by on 8 MB, this is no longer true for 2.0, particularly due the larger 3.1 X server binary. As a result, 12 MB is probably a sensible minimum memory size, with 16 MB being ample for ordinary X interactive use.
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