From owner-freebsd-small Tue Oct 31 10:16:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from ns3.safety.net (ns3.safety.net [216.200.162.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6863E37B4D7 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:16:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from les@localhost) by ns3.safety.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA90875 for freebsd-small@freebsd.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:16:35 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from les) From: Les Biffle Message-Id: <200010311816.LAA90875@ns3.safety.net> Subject: Runtime memory footprint To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:16:35 -0700 (MST) Reply-To: les@safety.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What determines the runtime memory footprint of a process? I have small daemons that occupy 25K on disk, don't malloc anything to speak of, but are 440K to 1024K in memory, according to top and ps. For that matter, just about nothing in my "ps" display is under 400K. The daemons are dynamically-linked. Is there anything I can do to reduce the memory footprint? Thanks and best regards, -Les --- Les Biffle Community Service... Just Say NO! (480) 778-0177 les@safety.net http://www.networksafety.com/ Network Safety, 7802 E Gray Rd Ste 500, Scottsdale, AZ 85260 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message