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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:37:43 +0000
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [hackers] Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.
Message-ID:  <20010227013743.H609@hand.dotat.at>
In-Reply-To: <200102260455.f1Q4tQ606269@guild.plethora.net>
References:  <15001.57313.163670.146752@trooper.velocet.net> <200102260455.f1Q4tQ606269@guild.plethora.net>

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Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net> 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.
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f.a.n.finch    fanf@covalent.net    dot@dotat.at


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