At Mon, 15 Sep 2003 04:01:22 -0700,
Ask Bj�rn Hansen wrote:
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> On Sunday, Sep 14, 2003, at 16:25 America/Los_Angeles, James H.
> Thompson wrote:
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> > I've been looking at the memory usage of qpsmtpd.
> > When you are running a 100 copies, it starts to add up.
>
> If you used PPerl, wouldn't most of it get shared?
Yes.
> > I wrote a small test program to track the memory requirements (VmSize)
> > of some of the perl libraries
> > used by qpsmtpd.
>
> Very interesting!
I started writing a longer response last night.. but in a nutshell it
said:
"Don't read too much into VmSize" -- in modern operating systems
with fancy memory management, it doesn't give you anywhere near
the whole picture of what's going on.
-R
