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From: jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (James E. Conley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Apollo OS
Message-ID: <20253@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 2 May 89 21:33:48 GMT
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Reply-To: jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (James E. Conley)
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	The problem is that small compact programs under SR9.7 now take
massive amounts of space under SR10.  The rlogin that I am running, for
instance, is eating up a whopping 1.8 Mbytes of space, a csh takes 1/2
a megabyte, and the X server eats a healthy 3.3 Mbytes!

	As you can probably guess, this hurts performance when you have
only 4 megabytes in your machine-- something has to go and that means a
lot of paging to disk.

	Apollo knows that this is unaccaptable and have been saying that
they are going to get the execution sizes down to a reasonable level some
time around 10.2 or so.

	As far as needing 8Mbytes, I would say it depends on how you are
using your machines-- most of our users can survive with 4Mbytes at SR10.1,
but for people using them for things other than X terminals the 8Mbytes is
pretty essential.  This is especially true for our CAD users.

	Hope this answers some of your questions.


James Conley
Indiana University Computer Science
jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu