Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:30:03 +0200 (MEST) From: Christian Kratzer <ck@toplink.net> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Per-process memory overhead Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9908061326340.1104-100000@hirvi.toplink.net> In-Reply-To: <16692.933931719@monkeys.com>
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Hi, On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > Can someone please explain to me why the following trivial program > shows up on both a `ps' listing and also when using `top' as having > a size of 136 KB? I can't tell you exactly where this is all going but on one hand the runtime environment needs some memory as workspace and also the os needs some memory per process. Processes are NOT very lightweit under unix. You will want to look into some thread support for running lots of small processes. Greetings Christian -- TopLink Internet Services GmbH ck@171.2.195.in-addr.arpa Christian Kratzer http://www.toplink.net/ Phone: +49 7032 2701-0 Fax: +49 7032 2701-19 FreeBSD spoken here! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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