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- From: g9129499@cc.uow.edu.au (Jeremy Lawrence)
- Subject: Re: 32 Megs sucked dry by Open Windows 3.0
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.073332.21939@cc.uow.edu.au>
- Reply-To: jeremy@snrc.uow.edu.au
- Organization: University Of Wollongong
- References: <1992Nov4.144539.7162@eng.ufl.edu>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 07:33:32 GMT
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- dlopata@stat.ufl.edu (David Lopata) writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- Sounds rather high.
-
- With xnews, olvwm, console, two cmdtools, clock, two perfmeters,
- mailtool, answerbook, xvnews (the newsreader), textedit, filemgr,
- framemaker with five documents open and backing store enabled (the
- executable alone is 3MB), calendar manager, cdplayer, and a full-screen
- background image loaded with XV, I'm only using a total of 29 MB virtual memory
- (allocated+reserved):
-
- % pstat -s
- 25460k allocated + 3720k reserved = 29180k used, 121336k available
-
- The system is SPARC 2, 4.1.2/OW3.0 + a few patches, GENERIC_SMALL-based
- kernel with maxusers bumped up and tempfs enabled (unpatched). Try a
- few patches for the memory pigs (use ps -ux). In particular 100444-28
- (xnews), and 100452-20 (xview library) might be useful, if they haven't
- be bundled in 4.1.3. The latest ld.so patch (100257-04) could help
- too. (I'm just guessing.)
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