Re: [PATCH] Patch to Memory Subsystem ... (Needed?)

Philip Blundell (philb@gnu.org)
Fri, 06 Nov 1998 20:26:56 +0100

>Just a thought, but how much memory does root need to do suchlike
>cleanups? Let's see - load the login shell (probably already in
>memory anyway, so 0k), run ps (may already be in memory) to find out

Memory consumption isn't quite nothing even for binaries that are already
sitting in the page cache. You still need a stack and a collection of COW'd
data pages.

p.

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