From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 27 01:23:04 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA23814 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 01:23:04 -0800 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA23788 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 01:22:54 -0800 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA06111; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 10:23:19 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199503270923.KAA06111@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: CERN and NCSA httpd... To: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 10:23:18 +0100 (BST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503261248.GAA17176@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Mar 26, 95 06:48:36 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 770 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Peter da Silva who said > > > > Perhaps the CERN daemon has better locality? What's NCSA holding on in it's > > > megabyte-odd of BSS, too? > > > Hmm I wonder if cern malloc's more of it's data area. > > I would expect it does. > > It's still using up a lot less real memory, regardless, which is interesting > considering it's got a bigger text segment. > Well if it's mallocing and freeing as it needs to then that's probably why. It looks liek NCSA statically decalares all the memory it needs up front. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/ Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.