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



>>>>> "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.

    Stephen> Btw, Executor has allowed me to become much more
    Stephen> productive under an awesome OS -> Linux! Good work ARDI
    Stephen> 8-)

Thank you.

    Stephen> Stephen -- Stephen P. Lee Office: (604) 291-4291
    Stephen> Department of Biological Sciences Fax: (604) 291-3496
    Stephen> Simon Fraser University E-mail: Stephen_p_lee@sfu.ca
    Stephen> Burnaby, BC, Canada. V5A 1S6

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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