What's the minimum memory for a process in FreeBSD 5.3?

[Roland Smith]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 03:36:26PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> I wrote a very tiny program in C that occupies a mere 7417 bytes on
> disk.  When I run it, however, and look at it with top, it shows the
> size as 1,208,320 bytes in total size, with 663,552 bytes resident.
> 
> Where are the extra 1.2 million bytes coming from?  What's the
> rock-bottom minimum size for a process in FreeBSD 5.3?

Shared libraries, stack space, heap space.

Roland
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