Xref: utzoo comp.sys.att:6205 unix-pc.general:2740 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!rutgers!att!mtunb!jcm From: jcm@mtunb.ATT.COM (was-John McMillan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general Subject: Re: more windows on unixpc (screen memory) Message-ID: <1481@mtunb.ATT.COM> Date: 25 Apr 89 19:52:56 GMT References: <677@icus.islp.ny.us> <482@limbic.UUCP> <757@ivucsb.UUCP> Reply-To: jcm@mtunb.UUCP (was-John McMillan) Distribution: na Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA Lines: 17 In article <757@ivucsb.UUCP> todd@ivucsb.UUCP (Todd Day) writes: ... >But won't the new window driver just eat more kernel memory? It seems to me >that there is a LOT of unused kernel memory, and adding a few more window >structures doesn't seem like it will put a real drain on available kernel >memory... There are users out there with TCP/IP, xt, cmb, nicp, and other loadables -- all at the same time. Sadly, this means they are running with as little as 6 free kernel pages. They have locked up merely by turning on screen- blanking -- which requires another 8 kernel pages. While we could argue about strategies that free those 8 pages, it is difficult to defend the statement that "there is a lot of unused kernel memory". (It is also hard to justify the TCP/IP size, but folks use it...) john mcmillan -- att!mtunb!jcm