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RE: More: Recent increase in size
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 01:54:55 -0500
- Subject: RE: More: Recent increase in size
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of
> fergus
[snip]
> > ... but maybe there's some huge directory come into being?
>
> I mean (sorry to bang on) has /bin/ always contained ~1700
> files at 269M; and /lib/ ~500 files at 164M? (I've only
> noticed because I'm looking.)
>
This, I don't know. I only have ~500 files in /bin, and that of course will
vary depending on what packages are installed.
> (And what is the consequence for memory usage when the
> virtual directories /usr/bin/ and /usr/lib/ are created on startup?)
>
This I do: Those are just mount table entries. Memory usage won't change
regardless of the number or size of files in the directory a Cygwin mount
table entry points to. So there's no consequence there.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
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