From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 21 21:20:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 947B737B699; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:19:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=gateway.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 14KZNc-0002ba-00; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 05:19:00 +0000 Received: from buffy.raggedclown.net (btvs.demon.nl [192.168.1.2]) by gateway.raggedclown.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E20FE5DB5; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 06:17:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by buffy.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.0 (i386), from userid 500) id 0407012C54; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 05:54:31 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 05:54:30 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: Kris Kennaway Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Mike Meyer , Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: small program eats lot of memory Message-ID: <20010122055430.F1639@raggedclown.net> References: <14955.1209.195848.394006@guru.mired.org> <01012121054701.03293@buffy> <20010121152246.X10761@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> <20010121165041.A76170@citusc17.usc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010121165041.A76170@citusc17.usc.edu>; from kris@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:50:41PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:50:41PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 03:22:46PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > The purpose of shared libraries is to share _disk_ space, not memory > > space. > > No, I believe he is correct. If you have two shared programs in > memory, the VM system will only have one copy of the libc code shared > between them (similarly with any other common libraries). > > Kris At last the voice of sanity :) Cliff > > -- > NOTE: To fetch an updated copy of my GPG key which has not expired, > finger kris@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message