Thanks Keith, Looking more into what was happening I figured that the beanstalk process wasn't consuming the memory directly. It was the cached binlog files that were using the 'cached' memory.
--Payam On Dec 26 2011, 10:22 pm, Keith Rarick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:18 AM, payam.s <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was wondering if the memory for a job is released when the job is > > deleted, or it is released when that particular job and all the jobs > > before that are deleted? > > Memory for each job is free'd when the job is deleted. > > The C library's allocator may or may not also return > memory to the OS when this happens. Some allocators > never return memory to the OS at all. Even so, free'd > memory will be reused for subsequent allocations. > > kr -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "beanstalk-talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk?hl=en.
