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From: declan@remus.rutgers.edu (Declan McCullagh/LZ)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How low can you go?
Message-ID: <Feb.28.14.24.49.1991.5621@remus.rutgers.edu>
Date: 28 Feb 91 19:24:49 GMT
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In article <Feb.28.01.10.04.1991.28898@remus.rutgers.edu>, declan@remus.rutgers.edu (Declan McCullagh/LZ) writes:

> PS: On my system, 'ps aux' reports Preferences as using about 880 KB of
> "real" memory.  Let's assume that there are 30,000 NeXT systems out
> there, with about 25,000 usually running Preferences upon login.
> That's about 22,000 MB of RAM, or about 22 GB of RAM used to
> display that many clocks.  Wow.

I'd like to correct myself and add that the size listed by 'ps' is a
bit misleading.  According to NeXT Software Engineering, Preferences
usually used only 8 or 9 pages (64-72KB) for its own use (the rest is
mapped into Preferences' address space from the shared libraries).

So that leaves us with a realistic figure closer to 1.7 GB, not 22 GB...

-Declan