Solaris/IRAF Site Manager's Guide
Solaris/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.
With the introduction of the virtual files system in SunOS 4.0, the memory
requirements of SunOS and hence Solaris have increased ever further.
Interactive performance
will suffer greatly if the system pages a lot. Fortunately, memory is
becoming relatively cheap. No Sun system, including personal diskless
nodes, should be configured with less than 16 Mb of main memory; 20 Mb or
more is recommended if you plan to do a lot of image processing. On
servers, 32, 64, or even 128 Mb is not an unreasonable amount of memory to
try to configure the system with.