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Re:Uno Platform 4 by kazinator on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @07:12PM (#29410895)

The same way they can be fine with a bash processes having 24 megabyte VM footprints.

  kaz      22301  0.0  0.0  25188  7264 pts/2    Ss+  Nov03   0:02 bash
  kaz      25976  0.0  0.1  27268  9632 pts/1    Ss   Nov16   0:08 bash
  kaz      27179  0.0  0.0  24368  6704 pts/0    Ss   Nov16   0:01 bash
           ^^^^^ ??

EMACS = Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping used to be a ha-ha only not funny joke.

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Re:Uno Platform 4 by no_time on Thursday December 02, 2021 @05:20AM (#29414443)

That does seem weird. Just checked my bash processes and none exceed 13 megabytes of virtual memory

  PID USER      PRI  NI  VIRT   RES   SHR S CPU% MEM%   TIME+  Command 
  2048 REDACTED 20   0 12852  1844  1816 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.01 │ bash

Ubuntu 20.04 with latest patches

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Re:Uno Platform 4 by kazinator on Thursday December 02, 2021 @06:35PM (#29424529)

I remember a moment from 1994 or so. I was using a friend's machine, which was running X on top of Linux. It was some model of 486. I had some image viewing windows open (xv program), and was editing a complex figure in XFig, and had some audio playing.

I was thinking, "man, this is nicely responsive and usable; how much RAM is in this thing?"

I drop to the shell to run "free" ... 6 megs!

Remembering these things is important, kind of like remembering rivers full of fish, frozen polar ice caps, or the song of an extinct bird.

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