Re: X11 0.2 Startup Behaviour
Re: X11 0.2 Startup Behaviour
- Subject: Re: X11 0.2 Startup Behaviour
- From: magenta <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:22:00 -0800
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:16:02PM -0700, Dennis Flanigan wrote:
>
> In my .xinitrc I used:
>
> quartz-vm
>
> instead of:
>
> exec quartz-vm
>
> What is the difference ?
About 900K of memory.
'exec' replaces the running shell process with the quartz-wm process,
freeing up the resources used by the shell. If there's nothing else which
the shell is going to run after the WM exits, there's no point to keep the
shell around, since it just sits around taking up memory (granted, it all
gets paged out anyway, but then it sits around taking up 900K of disk space
instead).
It's one of those UNIXisms which makes a lot of sense from the OS point of
view but which is counterintuitive from a typical user's perspective.
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