On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Graham Toal wrote:
> Try setting cache_mem to 8 rather than 16 and it will probably
> settle down around 27Mb like mine has. Bit of a pig, isn't
> it? I suspect inefficient malloc use. Could probably use
> a custom allocator. (I say this with entirely no knowlege
> of the inside of the program at all, so I could be talking out
> my arse...)
Compiling with GNU malloc seems to help. From my experiences (on DEC
OSF/1) it doesn't reduce the process size much, but does produce a lot
less swapping.
Andrew
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