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RE: More: Recent increase in size


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Pechtchanski
[snip]
> 
> On Mon, 16 May 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: cygwin-owner@XXXXXX.XXX
> > > [mailto:cygwin-owner@XXXXXX.XXX] On Behalf Of fergus
> 
> Tut-tut...  <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>...
> 

...?  I was under the impression that cygwin{}@'s weren't an issue; if
they're harvesting from the list, they already have it anyway, right?

[snip]
> > > (And what is the consequence for memory usage when the virtual 
> > > directories /usr/bin/ and /usr/lib/ are created on startup?)
> >
> > This I do: Those are just mount table entries.  Memory usage won't 
> > change regardless of the number or size of files in the directory a 
> > Cygwin mount table entry points to.  So there's no 
> consequence there.
> 
> True for the actual disk space usage.  However, if "du -s" is 
> used from the root, it will traverse both "/bin" and 
> "/usr/bin", and add up the numbers (so you get the size of 
> /bin counted twice, same for /lib).
> 	Igor

Well, right, but he asked about memory (i.e. RAM) usage.

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle
 


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