Re: mergemem: announce & design issues

Jacques Gelinas (jack@solucorp.qc.ca)
Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:19:09 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Philipp Reisner wrote:

> Jacques Gelinas wrote:
> >
> > Do you have some statistics on the saving with some programs you know
> > benefit from that ?
> >
>
> It's hard to forecast the benefit for a program...
> But some examples:
> (intel, two instances of the named program)
>
> netscape3 240KB
> xemacs(19.14) 520KB
> X (XSuSE_NVidia) 168KB ( I also heard of results of up do 1.5MB )
> bash 104KB ( ! )

Are you telling me that each bash process have 104k (around that) of
unshared stuff that is identical in each process ?

What are those anonymous mmap btw ?

> >From memory:
> emacs ~0KB
> sixtus_prolog on alpha ~100%
>
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