From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 27 11:21:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hand.dotat.at (sfo-gw.covalent.net [207.44.198.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C8F137B719 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:21:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fanf@dotat.at) Received: from fanf by hand.dotat.at with local (Exim 3.20 #3) id 14XZ5D-0002xN-00; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:37:43 +0000 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:37:43 +0000 From: Tony Finch To: Peter Seebach Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [hackers] Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions. Message-ID: <20010227013743.H609@hand.dotat.at> References: <15001.57313.163670.146752@trooper.velocet.net> <200102260455.f1Q4tQ606269@guild.plethora.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200102260455.f1Q4tQ606269@guild.plethora.net> Organization: Covalent Technologies, Inc Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Seebach wrote: >David Gilbert writes: >> >>Due to the bloat of the OS and Motif and other such things, they >>required simply amazing amounts of swap just to run. > >Well, to some extent, I have to wonder why all these pages are being >requested if they aren't being used... fork() with big data segments that cause swap to be reserved in case of a copy-on-write. The 2GB of swap is never actually used, but you still have to have it. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch fanf@covalent.net dot@dotat.at To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message