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

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