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From: tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Process sizes on the NeXT
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Date: 30 Jan 89 07:08:02 GMT
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The following is a truncated down copy of a ps done on the our NeXT:

USER       PID  %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT  TIME COMMAND
tytso      149   1.0  3.2 16.3M  264K p0 S     0:21 -bin/tcsh (tcsh)
root      2193   0.5  2.6 16.2M  216K p0 R     0:00 ps augx
root        70   0.1  1.1 5.84M   88K ?  S     0:32 /etc/nmserver
root         3   0.0  0.0  584K    0K ?  SW    0:00 /etc/mach_init -xx
root         2   0.0  0.0    0K    0K ?  SW    0:00  (exception_hdlr)
me        2174   0.0  0.0  816K    0K ?  SW    0:00 -tcsh (tcsh)
root         1   0.0  0.0  600K    0K ?  SW    0:00 init -xx
root        90   0.0  0.0  792K    0K ?  SW    0:10 /etc/inetd

Why are processes so huge?!?  I started a /bin/sh, and it was even
larger than my tcsh --- 18 Megs!!!!  What's going on?  Even on RISC
machine those sizes are incredibly large.....
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