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- From: nh@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (nicholas.hounsome)
- Subject: Re: 32 Megs sucked dry by Open Windows 3.0
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.092701.13090@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- Organization: AT&T
- References: <1992Nov4.144539.7162@eng.ufl.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 09:27:01 GMT
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- From article <1992Nov4.144539.7162@eng.ufl.edu>, by dlopata@stat.ufl.edu (David Lopata):
- > ...
- >
- > Hi guys! I'm curious to know exactly how much memory Openwindows is
- > SUPPOSED to be taking up.
- >
- > With a single Xterm, Mailtool, console, and XRN, Top reports the
- > following:
- >
- > Memory: 27844K available, 27316K in use, 528K free, 2368K locked.
- >
- > Pstat reports that 20876 of our 32720 swap partition is used. Nice.
- >
- > We're running OW 3.0, SunOS 4.1.3 with tmpfs (patched 100507-04).
- > What numbers do you guys get? The machines is an IPX with 32 Megs. It's a
- > test machine, so nobody else is logged in/eating resources.
- >
- > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > David C. Lopata dlopata@stat.ufl.edu
- > System Manager, Dept. of Statistics 234A Floyd Hall
- > "Impeach Clinton!" (904)392-1941 Ext. 233
-
- This is typical.
- One soloution is to use Xsun from X11R5 instead of OW3 which carries all
- the sunview/NeWS baggage - that saves a few megs.
- Using xterm instead of cmdtool is probably a bad idea because it uses
- a completely different set of libraries (Xt) to the sun stuff (xview)
- and so there is more unshared code to swap in (although this doesn't come
- from your swap partition).
-
- If you think you have problems then try running dbxtool on a large
- X application that has been processed by purify - I can just do it
- with one cmdtool and nothing else.
-
- Nick Hounsome
-