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From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Orlando Andico <orly@mozcom.com>
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Subject: Re: mount_mfs is huge
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On Mon, 24 May 1999, Orlando Andico wrote:

> I'm using the swap partition as /tmp (a la Solaris tmpfs). I understand
> why the size of the mount_mfs process is 257MB (that's the size of the
> swap partition). But why is the RSS 8MB? does it take that much memory?

Well, it needs room for the filesystem.

Doug White                               
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