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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Xenix binary memory useage on 386 UNIX
Message-ID: <1990Nov02.141056.21439@virtech.uucp>
Date: 2 Nov 90 14:10:56 GMT
References: <1990Nov1.225155.1087@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
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In article <1990Nov1.225155.1087@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> glenn@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (Glenn Geers) writes:
>	Anyone know why Xenix binaries consume about 4 times the memory of
>that used by the same program compiled under UNIX? BTW both are run on
>the UNIX box. Is both code and data shown for Xenix executables on the ps
>list?

You didn't give enough information in your question.

A. What versions of each operating system?

B. What was the size of the program?  A 300% gain sounds like a big problem
until you look and see that the size went from 1K to 4K. (small differences
may just be due to different memory architectures)

C. What happens when you reverse the issue?  (what is the relative size of both
executables when run on the xenix system?)

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