roy%phri@uunet.uu.net (Roy Smith) (07/21/89)
I gather it pretty much taken as a given that 4.0 needs more memory to run
than 3.X, at least in this forum. What I don't understand is why. It was
my understanding that with the shared libraries in 4.0, there should be
less memory required, not more. Your typical suntools application is
500-700 kbyte of text space; presumably most of this is the suntool,
sunwindow, pixrect, and stdio libraries, which would be shared under 4.0.
So why does 4.0 need more memory?
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"The connector is the network"sgf@cfm.brown.edu (William Quayle) (07/28/89)
The main reason is that a page fault under 4.x chews up so much more server CPU. It's >>much<< easier to max a server under 4.x. You need more memory to reduce paging.