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Re: Is Executor 1.99q9 suppose to take-up so much memory?



In article <ufg2bbonk0.fsf@ftp.ardi.com>,
Clifford T. Matthews  <ctm@ardi.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen P Lee <splee@news.sfu.ca> writes:
>In article
<4i55ht$h7m@morgoth.sfu.ca> splee@news.sfu.ca (Stephen P 
Lee) writes: >
>
>    Stephen> I'm running E/L 1.99q9. According to top and from the
>    Stephen> noise my HD makes (swapping) E/L is taking-up 16940k of
>    Stephen> memory. That's without any apps running in
>    Stephen> Executor. Because Executor has taken all of my physical
>    Stephen> ram, running anything else under X is thrashing the
>    Stephen> HD. Is it possible (I hope) that a lot of the Executor
>    Stephen> code is debugging related?
>
>beaut 4.16 ps wwl512
> F   UID   PID  PPID PRI NI SIZE  RSS WCHAN      STAT TTY   TIME COMMAND
> 0   200   512   259  15 15 6972 3056 0          R N  pp0   0:14 executor
>
>Here it appears to be taking up less than 7 MB.
>
>	beaut 4.17 size /linux-aout-199q9/executor 
>	text    data    bss     dec     hex     filename
>	1810400 151552  135432  2097384 2000e8  /linux-aout-199q9/executor
>
>	beaut 4.19 size /linux-elf-199q9/executor
>	text    data    bss     dec     hex     filename
>	1410788 449872  116044  1976704 1e2980  /linux-elf-199q9/executor
>
>About 2 MB appears to be taken up by the application and its initial data.
>
>	beaut 4.18 /linux-aout-199q9/executor -info
>	This is Executor 1.99q9, compiled Mon Mar 11 20:20:46 MST 1996.
>	CPU type is 80486 or better.
>	Choosing 2.00 MB for applzone, 0.50 MB for syszone, 0.25 MB for stack
>
>Another 2.5 MB is taken up by memory that's given to the virtual Mac.
>
>That leaves about 2.5 MB left for scratch space for dynamic
>recompilation as well as the video buffer (300k needed for 640x480).
>
>Are you using any command line switches to adjust the amount of memory
>Executor uses ("-memory", "-applzone", "-syszone", or "-stack")?  I
>just checked and "top" gives roughly the same size as ps does, so
>something on your system is making Executor use a lot more memory than
>it does by default.
>
Oops! I've been launching E/L from an FVWM menu and have forgotten all 
the switches attached to it. Yes, I am using -applzone 9000k. My apologies!
Thanks for the help though...

Stephen
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