> I did so, because for writing rc scripts, which is my favorite > scripting language already, it sucked to be dependent on dynamically > linked bloat binaries from GNU. I measured that a simple sleep call to > the default sleep program of Debian consumes about 2MB memory. Since > sleep might be rarely used, the problem of GNU test still occurs,
I suspect you are confusing VM footprint with memory footprint. In the case of /bin/sleep, presumably all the shared libraries were already in memory and being used by (shared with, if you wil) other programs. Russ
