"MK" <[email protected]> writes: > 1. Is it normal that memory is not freed after I kill ftpd daemon?
yes. because the ftp daemon didn't allocate it. > 2. Is it normal ftpd can take about 800MB of real memory while serving > GET requests? (only 1 client is able to consume that portion of > memory) If you serve 800MB of file data through ftpd then yes. > 3. Is it normal that this memory seems to be lost from the system? yes. The keyword here is "seems". The memory is used for caching the file contents in case you decide to read those files again. It's reused for more useful things when it's needed. //art
