From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 17 11:50:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA09755 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 11:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.188]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA09749 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 11:50:40 -0700 (PDT) From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu Received: from kongur (kongur.cs.ucdavis.edu) by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.6) id AA00481; Wed, 17 Jul 96 11:50:38 PDT Received: by kongur (SMI-8.6/UCDCS.SECLAB.Solaris2-2.0) id LAA05848; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 11:51:25 -0700 Message-Id: <199607171851.LAA05848@kongur> Subject: Re: Opinions? To: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD misc chating list) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 11:51:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: from "Jamie Bowden" at Jul 17, 96 02:43:54 pm X-Pgp-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Installed nt4.0 beta on a machine last night just to have a look. It's > Windows NT 97. But the machine, sitting idle, doing nothing was > consuming 15.5 megs of RAM. There were no applications running, no icon > menus up. The only thing up was th one utility to let me look at I wonder if they pre-allocate a large cache buffer, and then reduce the cache when the demain for core increases (like some Unix's do). If so, then it's no big deal that it was consuming 15.5 megs of core sitting idle. -- David