Re: [Ganymede Help] Ganymede Leak

[Jonathan Abbey <jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu>]

| Hi, 
| 
| I notice that ganymede generate keeps generating
| processes when it is running in the background. 

Those aren't processes, they are threads.  If you run the Ganymede
server on linux 2.2 or 2.4, you will see a separate entry in the
process table (i.e., when you run 'top' or 'ps') for each thread
in the server.

| Hence , a lot of memory is being taken up.

The amount of memory you see taken up for each 'process' is actually
the TOTAL amount of memory taken up by the server.

For instance, when I run top on my linux system with the Ganymede
admin console running, I see a dozen or so 'processes' (really
threads), looking something like this:

  7:31pm  up 193 days,  2:24, 15 users,  load average: 1.13, 1.40, 1.45
155 processes: 145 sleeping, 5 running, 5 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 27.5% user, 72.4% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
Mem:   254264K av,  252440K used,    1824K free,       0K shrd,     700K buff
Swap:  530104K av,  213076K used,  317028K free                   93728K cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
10745 broccol    9   0 24476  20M  4764 S     0.0  8.0   0:01 java
10746 broccol    8   0 24476  20M  4764 S     0.0  8.0   0:00 java
10747 broccol    9   0 24476  20M  4764 S     0.0  8.0   6:12 java

Each of these lines is one thread in the program, and all of them _put
together_ are 24,476k in size.

| Is this a desired feature or am I doing something
| wrong?
| 
| sze yee

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Jonathan Abbey 				              jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu
Applied Research Laboratories                 The University of Texas at Austin
Ganymede, a GPL'ed metadirectory for UNIX     http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2

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