Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 05:54:30 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios <gustavo@ifour.com.br>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: small program eats lot of memory Message-ID: <20010122055430.F1639@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20010121165041.A76170@citusc17.usc.edu>; from kris@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:50:41PM -0800 References: <14955.1209.195848.394006@guru.mired.org> <01012121054701.03293@buffy> <20010121152246.X10761@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> <20010121165041.A76170@citusc17.usc.edu>
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On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:50:41PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 03:22:46PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > The purpose of shared libraries is to share _disk_ space, not memory > > space. > > No, I believe he is correct. If you have two shared programs in > memory, the VM system will only have one copy of the libc code shared > between them (similarly with any other common libraries). > > Kris At last the voice of sanity :) Cliff > > -- > NOTE: To fetch an updated copy of my GPG key which has not expired, > finger kris@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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