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From: treese@crltrx.crl.dec.com (Win Treese)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: size of df (was: Re: malloc not enough core)
Message-ID: <140@crltrx.crl.dec.com>
Date: 9 May 89 18:00:11 GMT
Reply-To: treese@crl.dec.com (Win Treese)
Organization: DEC Cambridge Research Lab
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df in Ultrix, like df in 4.3BSD, uses a table of filesystems sized on NMOUNT.
The 4.3BSD df allocates it statically, since NMOUNT is small.  Ultrix
allocates the memory at run-time.  In the standard 3.0 release, NMOUNT
is 254, leading to a rather large table.

Win Treese						Cambridge Research Lab
treese@crl.dec.com					Digital Equipment Corp.