Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

[Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>]

Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:

> On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 22:54 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> > David Weinehall <tao@debian.org> writes:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 07:09:49PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> > > 
> > > Now the choice of 464kB or 4528kB on a desktop where you're actually
> > > using the shell for interactive things is probably not a big deal,
> > > personally I'd never use dash, posh, or busybox (except for rescue
> > > purposes)  on a desktop (or server, for that matter) other than for
> > > scripts.
> > 
> > Actually it is. In desktop (low memory PC; 64M or less), you open
> > several terminals to work efficiently. It's quite natural to have
> > 10-20 open.
> > 
> > Count 20 x bash against some other alternative shell and the
> > consumed memory becomes apparent.
> 
> Somebody needs to explain to Jari the concept of a shared text segment.

And why do you think that? please take a look at the RES values.

Jari