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Xref: sserve comp.windows.x.i386unix:1542 comp.os.386bsd.questions:2413 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!mcsun!news.forth.gr!news.forth.gr!vp From: vp@terpsi.csi.forth.gr (Vassilis Prevelakis) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: XFree1-2 + 386BSD performance Date: 14 May 1993 01:03:56 +0300 Organization: Institute of Computer Science, FORTH Hellas Lines: 22 Message-ID: <vp.737330368@news.forth.gr> References: <1993May12.025731.29769@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <C6x8Hy.Fw@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <hastyC6xrHw.Dxs@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: terpsi.csi.forth.gr hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >In article <C6x8Hy.Fw@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com (David E. Wexelblat) writes: >[...] >shared library support so a couple of X terms will cost you >at least 2MB of memory add the server and a couple of X apps >and you start swapping on a 8MB memory machine. I thought that the BSD4.3 vm allows sharing of the text of entire executables. If 386BSD follows the same policy (my 386BSD system is at home so I can't check it now) then the Xterms will definately NOT eat up 2 megs. **vp ----------------------------------- Vassilis Prevelakis | vp@csi.forth.gr Thoukididou 10A | old style address: Plaka, Athens 105 58 | ...!mcvax!ariadne!vp GREECE | Tel. +30 1 32 32 867 | FAX +30 1 72 24 603