On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > But, what makes analog grab this much memory even for "tiny" tasks? Even > with a small 2 KB apache logfile it goes up very quickly to about 50 MB > before it finishes. There is no big difference to larger files, they just > take longer but usually don't consume much more memory. >
What Jason said earlier is right. It doesn't, unless you are reading a cache file or DNS file as well. Well, I suppose your OS could allocate the process a big glob of memory if it wanted. But analog itself doesn't use any more than it needs. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
