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From: Nathaniel W Filardo <nwf@cs.jhu.edu>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: [9fans] Vac using gobs of RAM?
Date: Thu,  5 Feb 2009 00:30:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090205053023.GA7757@masters6.cs.jhu.edu> (raw)

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I am running the admittedly somewhat odd vac command
> phlogiston% vac \
>     -d ... -q \ 
>     -f ... \ 
>     -h ... \ 
>     -e acme/acid/386 -e acme/acid/alpha -e acme/acid/arm \
>     -e acme/acid/mips -e acme/acid/power -e acme/bin/386 \
>     -e acme/bin/alpha -e acme/bin/arm -e acme/bin/mips \
>     -e acme/bin/power -e acme/mail/386 -e acme/mail/alpha \
>     -e acme/mail/arm -e acme/mail/mips -e acme/mail/power \
>     -e sys/man/vol1.ps -e sys/man/vol1.ps.gz -e sys/man/vol1.pdf \
>     LICENSE* NOTICE acme lib rc sys ;
and observe 
> nwf           42696    0:00   0:00    82744K Fstat    vac
which raises the natural question
> What is vac doing with 83 megabytes of RAM!?

Thoughts? :)
--nwf;

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             reply	other threads:[~2009-02-05  5:30 UTC|newest]

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2009-02-05  5:30 Nathaniel W Filardo [this message]
2009-02-05 13:11 ` erik quanstrom

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