On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Shridhar Daithankar spewed into the ether:
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> Forking entire X session causes increase of less than 5MB I guess. I have run 6
See shared memory.
Only the data stack will differ for executables, the rest stays the
same.
> startx sessions on my (then) 64MB machine. It used just 10MB of swap. Individual
Thats a lot ;) Start usin fvwm
> apps will take additional memory but ertainly memory doesn't add arithmatically
> in linux. It follows some reciprocal progression.(There are three types of
> preogressions. arithmatic, geometric(I hope this is right) and I forgot the
> third one, starting with h. Something similar to 1+1/x+1/x^2... My maths is
Harmonic. Your example is geometric. 1/a, 1/(a+b), 1/(a+2b)..... is
harmonic, IIRC.
Devdas Bhagat
--
As I was passing Project MAC,
I met a Quux with seven hacks.
Every hack had seven bugs;
Every bug had seven manifestations;
Every manifestation had seven symptoms.
Symptoms, manifestations, bugs, and hacks,
How many losses at Project MAC?
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