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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
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Message-ID: <vp.737330368@news.forth.gr>
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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

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