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. -- 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
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