> On Jul 16, 2026, at 9:09 AM, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Are these allocated even if they’re not used?  If so, I would object to such 
>> a change.
> 
> Martin did the math and we're talking another 3760 bytes of memory over
> the status quo -- which was judged ok with 1993 RAM sizes.

What’s the problem with allocating them as they’re used?  If I never use System 
V IPC, why should I have to burn a page of RAM on them?

> Do you object for all ports, or just smallish ones?   Even amd64 and
> aarch64?


In general, I think we should be caring more about how much memory something 
costs and weighing it against the benefit provided.  If you apply this “well, 
it’s only a page” attitude across N different things, pretty soon you’re 
talking about real money.

-- thorpej

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