Folks, increased functionality and/or increased performance almost always
means increased memory footprint. There's no fix for that yet, as long as
the kernel itself can't be swapped (and I don't think we want to deal with
the *nasty* potential deadlocks inherent in swappable kernel memory!).
The difference with respect to Windows is that there's hardly any additional
functionality or performance to justify the bloat....
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering carnegie mellon university (bsa@kf8nh is still valid.)
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