Subj : Re: Database program to just work with text files?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : adams_forum
Date : Mon Aug 23 2004 08:45 pm

> > I've been using mysql, but I don't want something for networks; I
> > don't like the daemon that runs in the background (according to top
> > and KDE System Guard, it has 4 threads running taking about 25MB
> > each!).
> 
> ..which is not really true.
> Linux uses shared code, meaning that any executable code from a binary 
> will only be loaded once, even if used by more than one process.
> They do each have separate data and stack spaces, though.
> 
> And for MySQL even this is not completely true - the indexes and lookup 
> tables are obviously only loaded once for each database or table ;-)

Thanks!  I was wondering why all those numbers seemed so large.

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