Path: utzoo!censor!clunk!lsuc!ncrcan!brian
From: brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Brian Onn)
Newsgroups: can.uucp
Subject: Re: size of smail
Message-ID: <1120@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM>
Date: 4 Jan 89 03:48:33 GMT
References: <1989Jan2.001754.11708@ziebmef.uucp> <1989Jan2.222329.27995@lsuc.uucp>
Reply-To: brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Brian Onn)
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In article <1989Jan2.222329.27995@lsuc.uucp> dave@lsuc.UUCP writes:
>[stuff about Smail2.5 being big 'nuff already]
>I agree entirely.  This old machine, with its 58 ports,
>20-30 users during the day and 50 very active UUCP connections
>handling about 10Mb/day has 960K of memory, of which over 200K
>is taken up by the kernel.  Back in the Good Old Days, people
>considered 1Mb a large amount of memory.  smail here is 56K.
>I sure wouldn't like to see it become 250K.  (No paging here
>either -- this is v7, so if you swap out a process it's the
>whole process.)
>
>And no, we can't increase the amount of memory on the machine.

Could I interest you in a Tower? :-)  I'll even throw paging in :-) 

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