On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 12:10:31PM +0200, David Odin wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 09:05:51PM -0400, Scott Balmos wrote:
> > Good evening everyone,
> >
> > While this may seem a rather odd question... It seems alarming to me that my
> > system (running 7.1 Beta 2) loves to idle around 185 megs when everything's
> > all and done loaded up. That's with MySQL, Apache, blah blah blah... loaded,
> > and X alone chewing 60 megs.
> >
> > Does this seem even *REMOTELY* possible? I imagine it might, with all the
> > binaries probably having debugging symbols in them.
> >
> > On a tangent to that question, what part of the filesystem is it *NOT* safe
> > to use "strip" on? If it is the debugging symbols that are the problem, then
> > I'd might as well strip them out save for KDE 2. :)
> >
> Ahem. Debugging symbols are used... by a debugger only. There are NEVER
> loaded into memory.
Interesting... you mean that compiling with debugging symbols
only takes more space on the hard disk, but doesn't use more memory ?
Never realised that.
(Well it also takes more time to compile the stuff, I guess).
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