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- In article <ufg2bbonk0.fsf@ftp.ardi.com>,
- Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com> wrote:
- >>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen P Lee <splee@news.sfu.ca> writes:
- >In article
- <4i55ht$h7m@morgoth.sfu.ca> splee@news.sfu.ca (Stephen P
- Lee) writes: >
- >
- > Stephen> I'm running E/L 1.99q9. According to top and from the
- > Stephen> noise my HD makes (swapping) E/L is taking-up 16940k of
- > Stephen> memory. That's without any apps running in
- > Stephen> Executor. Because Executor has taken all of my physical
- > Stephen> ram, running anything else under X is thrashing the
- > Stephen> HD. Is it possible (I hope) that a lot of the Executor
- > Stephen> code is debugging related?
- >
- >beaut 4.16 ps wwl512
- > F UID PID PPID PRI NI SIZE RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND
- > 0 200 512 259 15 15 6972 3056 0 R N pp0 0:14 executor
- >
- >Here it appears to be taking up less than 7 MB.
- >
- > beaut 4.17 size /linux-aout-199q9/executor
- > text data bss dec hex filename
- > 1810400 151552 135432 2097384 2000e8 /linux-aout-199q9/executor
- >
- > beaut 4.19 size /linux-elf-199q9/executor
- > text data bss dec hex filename
- > 1410788 449872 116044 1976704 1e2980 /linux-elf-199q9/executor
- >
- >About 2 MB appears to be taken up by the application and its initial data.
- >
- > beaut 4.18 /linux-aout-199q9/executor -info
- > This is Executor 1.99q9, compiled Mon Mar 11 20:20:46 MST 1996.
- > CPU type is 80486 or better.
- > Choosing 2.00 MB for applzone, 0.50 MB for syszone, 0.25 MB for stack
- >
- >Another 2.5 MB is taken up by memory that's given to the virtual Mac.
- >
- >That leaves about 2.5 MB left for scratch space for dynamic
- >recompilation as well as the video buffer (300k needed for 640x480).
- >
- >Are you using any command line switches to adjust the amount of memory
- >Executor uses ("-memory", "-applzone", "-syszone", or "-stack")? I
- >just checked and "top" gives roughly the same size as ps does, so
- >something on your system is making Executor use a lot more memory than
- >it does by default.
- >
- Oops! I've been launching E/L from an FVWM menu and have forgotten all
- the switches attached to it. Yes, I am using -applzone 9000k. My apologies!
- Thanks for the help though...
-
- Stephen
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