more windows on unixpc (screen memory)

[was-John McMillan]

In article <757 at ivucsb.UUCP> todd at ivucsb.UUCP (Todd Day) writes:
...
>But won't the new window driver just eat more kernel memory?  It seems to me
>that there is a LOT of unused kernel memory, and adding a few more window
>structures doesn't seem like it will put a real drain on available kernel
>memory...

There are users out there with TCP/IP, xt, cmb, nicp, and other loadables
-- all at the same time.  Sadly, this means they are running with as little
as 6 free kernel pages.  They have locked up merely by turning on screen-
blanking -- which requires another 8 kernel pages.

While we could argue about strategies that free those 8 pages, it is
difficult to  defend the statement that "there is a lot of unused kernel
memory".  (It is also hard to justify the TCP/IP size, but folks use it...)

john mcmillan	-- att!mtunb!jcm