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Problem:

Try the following on HP-UX PA-RISC and HP-UX Itanium

cd /usr/bin

ls -l dig host kermit nroff

You will see that these system utilities are approximately twice as large on Itanium.

Resolution:

HP have written an article about this which can be found at:

http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/files/unprotected/hpux/Itanium-Memory-Usage.pdf

The PDF file is attached.

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