Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 07 May 2001 12:33:57 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Wow! Is memory ever cheap! |
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Larry McVoy wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:21:28PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Larry McVoy wrote: > > > What does BitKeeper have to do with this conversation? > > > > Because your original post was "yeah, Bitkeeper is a memory hog but you > > can get really cheap non-ECC RAM so just stuff your system with crappy > > RAM and be happy." Doing so dedicates my system to running a small set > > of applications, which I am utterly uninterested in. > > .. BitKeeper isn't a memory hog, the kernel is bloated. Over 100MB of > source last I checked. BitKeeper is incredibly good at _NOT_ being > a memory hog, it uses the page cache as its memory pool. If things > fit in the cache, they go fast, if they don't, they don't. BitKeeper > is just like diff in that respect. If you think BitKeeper is a memory > hog, then you must hate diff too. How about netscape? Don't run that > either? Give me a break. >
I wasn't the one who said it, you did. I don't have any evidence either way.
> .. It's great that you aren't interested in running that set of small > applications, I'm sure the entire kernel list is happy to learn that.
I believe the same is true for most people, with the major exceptions being the embedded systems and server farm people.
-hpa
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