On Mon, 27 Mär 2000, Paul HoHo wrote:

> >AGP adds another 256MB, that's where those numbers are coming from. 
> I know this thread is going off-topic, but when you say AGP adds another
> 256MB, is that literally true? 

think again. I only have 256MB RAM (no swap). If it would use 256MB of RAM,
do you think I could boot up my system? ;-)

> but does this mean that once I
> upgrade my kernel, X is going to be using 256MB more of RAM?

No. it uses 256MB of your address space. But as you have 2GB on common intel
machines, it doesn't hurt. 


Dirk