Re: Low memory hacks

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 00:56 +0000, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> >
> >  On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 14:02 +0000, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> >  <snip>
> >
> > > That is a saving of at least 3M in memory.
> >  >
> >  > The stripping of "unneeded" messages is good, and should happen at the
> >  > package generation level (not in GNOME, or when creating tarballs).
> >
> >  You talk about memory savings, but do calculations based on file sizes.
> >  That's doesn't work.
> 
> Aren't mo files mapped to memory?

Yes, they're mapped. That doesn't result in actual memory usage. The
kernel will make sure they're only read into memory as needed.