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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 2001 01:21:58 -0800
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "'Cliff Sarginson'" <cliff@raggedclown.net>, <cjclark@alum.mit.edu>
Cc:        "'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:  <011301c08454$c5c7d160$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010122054915.D1639@raggedclown.net>

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Cliff 
>Sarginson
>Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 8:49 PM
>To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu
>> 
>> The purpose of shared libraries is to share _disk_ space, not memory
>> space.
>> 
>Well, this is news to me.
>

The point should also be made that your not really consuming a meg
of ram here because most of the program is going to be swapped out.
Check the Active memory in top and you will see the real memory
utilization of the system.



Ted Mittelstaedt                      tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:          The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:         http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com



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