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From: lori@hacgate.UUCP (Lori Barfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Why is Domain OS so big?
Message-ID: <6414@hacgate.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 89 19:50:33 GMT
References: <8912081415.AA12414@richter.mit.edu> <267@cancol.oz>
Reply-To: lori@hacgate.UUCP (Lori Barfield)
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA
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Discussing OS disk hogging, David Krowitz writes:
>> 4) Remember that under SR10.1p, every process running on the system
>>    takes up 5MB of disk space for virtual memory for the stack 
>>    (0.5MB on M68K machines). [...]

In article <267@cancol.oz> ross@cancol.oz (Ross Johnson) writes:
>Unless 'df' is lying to me ('du' does!), each process only?! grabs 500k 
>(SR10.1p) - same as for the m68k machines. That is, as a minimum.

I remember hearing that firing up a diskless node under SR10 soaks up
6MB of disk, a lot of it for swap.  Perhaps this is related.  It
certainly is a problem, although not exclusive to the 10k.


...lori

(an SR10 wanna-be anyway)