Nice article. It could also have mentioned mappings on/dev. For example, the X server, on a system with a 256MB graphics adapter, will map all that memory into its address space, making X look huge, even though it's not using all that much system RAM. This will show up as a device-backed mapping in the maps file. On a related note, X also looks big because it's holding pixmaps belonging to various applications (Firefox comes to mind).
You can't tell volounteers what to do. There's nothing that says the HURD developers would spend their time getting the next Debian release out the door if there was no Debian HURD. Besides, the long release cycles for Debian Linux seem to be more a policy/coordination problem than a code writing problem.
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Nice article. /dev. For example, the X server, on a system with a 256MB graphics adapter, will map all that memory into its address space, making X look huge, even though it's not using all that much system RAM. This will show up as a device-backed mapping in the maps file.
It could also have mentioned mappings on
On a related note, X also looks big because it's holding pixmaps belonging to various applications (Firefox comes to mind).
You can't tell volounteers what to do. There's nothing that says the HURD developers would spend their time getting the next Debian release out the door if there was no Debian HURD. Besides, the long release cycles for Debian Linux seem to be more a policy/coordination problem than a code writing problem.