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Date:      Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:10:31 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Mike Knoll <knollm@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Impossible memory size reporting
Message-ID:  <19990225121031.B25529@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.990225122405.6945A-100000@lafcol.lafayette.edu>; from "Mike Knoll" on Thu Feb 25 12:26:14 GMT 1999
References:  <Pine.SOL.3.96.990225122405.6945A-100000@lafcol.lafayette.edu>

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In the last episode (Feb 25), Mike Knoll said:
> I have rpc.statd running on a 3.1-RELEASE machine, and it shows a
> virtual size of 263megs.  Is something wrong in my configuration? 
> Everything works fine, but this is an insane amount of memory to be
> resonable.
> 
> My 2.2.8-RELEASE machine does not do this.
> 
> ps -axl
>     0  7316     1   0   2  0 262968  552 select Is    ??    0:00.00 rpc.statd

I think I remember reading about this a while back, and the culprit is
the mmap() that rpc.statd does.  It definitely does not use that much
memory.  A ps on a 2.2.8 prints reasonable numbers.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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