In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Douglas Eck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anyone know if it's normal for ypbind to spawn four daemons that >eat up 16Mb of memory? It works fine... but seems like a lot >of overhead. I'm running woody... > >>From memstat: > 4180k: PID 6497 (/usr/sbin/ypbind) > 4180k: PID 6496 (/usr/sbin/ypbind) > 4180k: PID 6495 (/usr/sbin/ypbind) > 4180k: PID 6492 (/usr/sbin/ypbind)
Those are not 4 processes, it's one process with 4 threads. The memory is used only once. What is memstat? "ps" on boxen here says it uses way less: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 151 0.0 0.1 1404 272 ? S Aug11 0:00 [ypbind] root 152 0.0 0.1 1404 272 ? S Aug11 0:00 [ypbind] root 153 0.0 0.1 1404 272 ? S Aug11 0:00 [ypbind] root 154 0.0 0.1 1404 272 ? S Aug11 0:00 [ypbind] Mike.
