On Mon, 16 May 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of fergus
Tut-tut... <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>... > [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. FWIW, the original post asked about "Full install"... > > (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. True for the actual disk space usage. However, if "du -s" is used from the root, it will traverse both "/bin" and "/usr/bin", and add up the numbers (so you get the size of /bin counted twice, same for /lib). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
