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From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
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Subject: RE: More: Recent increase in size
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 01:54:55 -0500
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT 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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