From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 2: 6: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A76FB37B401 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:05:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with UUCP id f0MA5g049876; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:05:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from tedm.placo.com (tedsbox [192.168.1.20]) by toybox.placo.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA26551; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 01:21:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "'Cliff Sarginson'" , Cc: "'Mike Meyer'" , "'Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios'" , Subject: RE: small program eats lot of memory Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 01:21:58 -0800 Message-ID: <011301c08454$c5c7d160$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-Reply-To: <20010122054915.D1639@raggedclown.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message