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Re: Memory needed for IDL/Linux? [message #8654 is a reply to message #8564]

Thu, 10 April 1997 00:00

kak
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thompson@orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov (William Thompson) writes:

> "Mark Hadfield" <m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz> writes:

>> David Foster <foster@bial1.ucsd.edu> wrote in article

>> I don't want to start a platform war or anything, but I've noticed that IDL
>> on Windows NT doesn't use much memory when it starts up - around 3 MB for
>> 5.0b. What on earth does IDL use all that memory for on Solaris?

> I'm not sure about the situation via Windows NT versus Solaris, but I have
> noticed this sort of behavior on simple routines that were compiled on
> different platforms. It may have more to do with the platform's compiler than
> it does with IDL.

In the Solaris case, the 7MB total size is right, but the size in
physical memory (resident stack size) is 2.8MB. What size is given
by the WinNT output? Perhaps it does not include the pages in the
swap file?

Karl
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		Memory needed for IDL/Linux? By: Liam Gumley on Thu, 03 April 1997 00:00
		Re: Memory needed for IDL/Linux? By: kak on Thu, 10 April 1997 00:00
		Re: Memory needed for IDL/Linux? By: thompson on Thu, 10 April 1997 00:00
		Re: Memory needed for IDL/Linux? By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 09 April 1997 00:00
		Re: Memory needed for IDL/Linux? By: pit on Wed, 09 April 1997 00:00
		Re: Memory needed for IDL/Linux? By: David Foster on Tue, 08 April 1997 00:00
		RE: Memory needed for IDL/Linux? By: mallozzi on Fri, 04 April 1997 00:00

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