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Xref: sserve comp.windows.x.i386unix:1545 comp.os.386bsd.questions:2415 Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: XFree1-2 + 386BSD performance Message-ID: <hastyC6zqMr.GDo@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <C6x8Hy.Fw@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <hastyC6xrHw.Dxs@netcom.com> <vp.737330368@news.forth.gr> Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 00:28:02 GMT Lines: 22 In article <vp.737330368@news.forth.gr> vp@terpsi.csi.forth.gr (Vassilis Prevelakis) writes: >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. > It does eat up memory :-) Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming