Re: [hackers] Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

[Tony Finch]

Peter Seebach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
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