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RAM size used to run TC/MC

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bmarkus:
It is stated several times, that many TC/MC users are using low RAM machines. Lets see the figures, please vote!

Lee:
1 Toshiba Magnia has 128 MB
3 Compaq Deskpro EN have 256, 256 and 384 (voted once as "256")
2 Dell Poweredge have 4GB and 4GB (voted once as "over 3GB")

thane:
Running a Compaq Deskpro EN with 512M, which I'm told is the max for that box.

(Oh yeah, and I replaced the CMOS battery. Thanks again Lee.)

Lee:
I'm curious to see how many users have under 128 MB and how light of a memory foot print TC can have and still be useful.    I occasionally run TC in Qemu on Win XP and I can't devote too much ram to it on that box or there's not enough left for my Windows bloatware.

@ Thane - do you think these Compaqs will outlast the new batteries?  :}

Jason W:
Until a few months ago, all my boxes were 400-800mhz with  128mb or 256mb of ram.  Recently got my hands on  a p4 with 1G of ram, so I use it make most efficient use of my time when compiling.  Most of the resource requirements of running a TC desktop are due to the applications themselves as the linux kernel and the busybox or gnu utilities do not require a lot more machine than they did a few years ago.  Browsing the modern web with a modern web browser will take gobs of ram and cpu regardless of the distro. 

TC is frugal with hardware resources by default by use of mounted extensions, using gzip instead of lzma for compressing squashfs,. 4kb squashfs block size to minimize RAM use.  I have run TC on a 64mb machine with xmms, links web browser, and gtk1 versions of emelfm and gqview, and console apps for a light but usable desktop. 

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