> From: USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: LIH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIH] [OT] how i installed a dictionary > Date: 16 Feb 2002 23:49:21 +0530 > > > dictd is perhaps the best dictionary available on Linux ... The only > problem is the size of the daemon. On a server setup, or a machine > with 256 mb memory, one can afford the amount it takes up (talk in > terms of mbs not kbs), but otherwise on a standalone box, a bit too > resource hungry! Otherwise brilliant ... setting up is a bit of a > pain (unless you apt-get from debian). Congrats that you got it to > work ... > > Could you confirm the amount of memory swallowed by the daemon ? > > Just my 2p > > Bish
yes, it's quite memory-intensive for a small programme. i have two large databases installed (webster and wordnet, about 24 mb together) and a few small ones. about 29 mb in all. for this setup, dictd consumes 3.1% of 256 megs (comes to a little less than 8 megs). and yes, the amount of memory consumed depends on how much data is installed. with only the webster files (15 megs), dictd eats about 1.7%. - t. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
