UNIX/IRAF Site Manager's Guide
UNIX/IRAF Site Manager's Guide
The windowing systems used in these workstations tend to be very memory
intensive; the typical screen with ten or so windows uses a lot of memory.
Interactive performance
will suffer greatly if the system pages a lot. Fortunately, memory is
becoming relatively cheap. No system, including personal diskless
nodes, should be configured with less than 32 Mb of main memory; 48 Mb or
more is recommended if you plan to do a lot of image processing. On
servers, 64, 128 or even 256 Mb is not an unreasonable amount of memory to
try to configure on the system.