Perf. 1.0 memory usage

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Jean-Francois Richard (jfr++at++cae.ca)
Fri, 4 Feb 94 11:33:51 EST

Somebody just pointed out to me that my Performer 1.0 application
appears to have a size of about 70,000 pages (that's 280 Mb!)
according to the ps and top commands. That is very interesting
(and potentially dangerous) since the machine it is running on
only has 128 Mb of combined physical and virtual memory. In real
life, the program never seems to actually use more than 15 to 20 Mb.

The memory appears to get reserved when I call pfInit(). Does Performer
need to reserve that much memory? Is there a chance that it might try
to actually use it and run out of swap space? Is there a way to
control Performer's appetite so that the other users of the computer
won't freak out when they look at my processes?

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   J.F. Richard
   CAE Electronics Ltd.
   Montreal, Canada
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