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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!howland.erols.net!news.nacamar.de!uunet!in2.uu.net!192.94.214.100!shemesh.hq.tis.com!troma.rv.tis.com!not-for-mail From: mark@troma.rv.tis.com (Mark Sienkiewicz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Date: 27 Mar 1997 13:10:28 -0500 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5hed6k$bv0@troma.rv.tis.com> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5gn615$9cu@flea.best.net> <5h92no$gua@innocence.interface-business.de> <5h9sdu$3ag@flea.best.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: troma.rv.tis.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.sco.misc:37453 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37851 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6477 comp.sys.sgi.misc:29443 In article <5h9sdu$3ag@flea.best.net>, Matt Dillon <dillon@flea.best.net> wrote: > Mmm.. respectfully, I would disagree. This might be true for very large > binaries, but for most programs the DATA+RSS+ALLOCATION will completely > override the size of the TEXT area (portion of the binary that holds > the instructions). The only time I see big differences in a ps is with > shared libraries, which vary greatly across architectures, but being > shared they do not have much impact on the true memory use. That's interesting. Do you have any idea why this is the case? I would expect that a program using 64 bit numbers would take up more memory than one using 32 bit numbers. Maybe a lot more programs manipulate characters (i.e. bytes) than integers?