Re: Linux + Eclipse

In article <prfni1l7c2evrsju5dbcb7pilb4kksfaed@xxxxxxx>, look-on@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>On 16 Sep 2005 09:49:43 -0700, jonasforssell@xxxxxxxx wrote or quoted
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>>I'm concidering buying a used laptop with 128 MB ram and 10 GB disk.
>>I will put Linux on it and run Eclipse for Java development.
>>Speed is not primary although I'd like to avoid constant swapping.
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>I think you need a minimum of 512MB to keep eclipse happy.

He's probably right though if the projects are small, 256 might work.

I'm running win2k. I just looked at task manager - 289484k mem used

I opened Eclipse 3.1 - 363644k mem used. And that's with no projects loaded.
With 128 mb there will be a lot of swapping.

Eric
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