On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Jukka Marin wrote:

> > > Well, my X server seems to use 35 MB right now.. plus some 40 MB for the X
> > > applications... ;-) :-(
> > 
> 
> NetBSD 1.2 / i386, XFree86 v3.3.  X server compiled not to use the internal
> malloc (because it would make things extremely slow with Applixware).
> I'm using a 16-bit display of 1280x1024, 19 windows (3*Netscape, 1*Applix,
> several xterms etc).
> 
> Yeah, I sure wish it didn't eat up that much RAM.  :-I
> 


No, that's *got* to be impossible, you must be reading something wrong
or *SOMETHING*.  The X server's binary size isn't even half that, so it
can't take up that much memory.  My X server (XF86_SVGA) is under 3MB
and it's *NOT* stripped.  You're reading something wrong or something..

Scott

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