On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Phil Nelson wrote:

> 
> >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..
> 
> He was talking runtime usage, not executable size.  For example,
> on my i386 system, I see:
> 

Yes, I realise what he was talking about, but the only way that could happen
was if he was running something with a *really* bad memory leak.  While it's
possible, I really don't see how somethng like that could go unnoticed from
the general population.  That's my opinion, anyway.  *shrug*

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Scott Smith 
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"Besides, who the hell would use an MS keyboard on an SGI machine, they'd
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