Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...

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From: Moises Lejter
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 04:08

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In article <43s1lh$5gm@orion.cybercom.net>, jerry@cybercom.net (Jerry Shekhel) writes:

  Jerry> Never mind long-running daemons.  Take a look at something as
  Jerry> ubiquitous as the X server.  Within a few hours of use, the X
  Jerry> server process on every UNIX machine I've ever used has grown
  Jerry> to serveral megabytes in size.  After a few days, the X
  Jerry> server process on my Sparcstation at work grows to something
  Jerry> like 30 megabytes.  Why do you think xdm restarts the X
  Jerry> server every time a user logs out?

I don't think they restart the X server because of memory leaks
(though that would be a good reason).  The "official" reason, it seems
to me, is that a user can affect the global state of the X server in
ways that might conflict with the next user's setup - restarting the
server guarantees that each user gets an X server in a pristine state.

Moises
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Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
Date: 23 Sep 95 04:08:56
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