Reclaiming (lots of) memory
Thomas Rast
foo.bar at freesurf.ch.invalid
Mon Oct 4 16:21:21 EDT 2004
Nick Craig-Wood <nick at craig-wood.com> writes:
> Paul Rubin <> wrote:
> > But I think it used much more than 4 MB of memory if you count the
> > amount of system cache that held that dbm file.
>
> The dbm file is only 10 MB though, so thats 10MB of memory extra used
> which *is* reclaimable!
Just to clear this up, the problem isn't that the process takes too
much memory while initializing. The machine that runs it has 256MB
RAM, and for all I care it can fill all available memory (when the
logfiles have grown to about four times what they are today, it
will...). The problem was that it wouldn't free *unused* RAM after
initialization.
Anyway, it works now. Thanks for your help Nick and Paul!
- Thomas
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