What would be a "normal" size of 32 bit nsd process? How can it be reduced? One of my servers only has 1G or ram, and I am forced to restart nsd every so often, when it uses up almost all the memory. Running 4.5 + XoTCL + tcllib, it seams to grow up to 2MB on each page request .
Thanks, ~ Alex. On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Jeff Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Buckman wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 05:41:44PM +0100, Juan Jos? del R?o [Simple > >> Option] wrote: > >> > >>> In my case I run AOLServer with customized code on top of it. No > >>> OpenACS. No modules except nspostgres. In 32 bits it works like a charm. > >>> No memory leaks. It simply works (damn fast!). > >> > >> Hm, so you see memory leaks when compiled for 64 bit, but none when > >> compiling the same code 32 bit - interesting. Can you reproduce the > >> leakage under Valgrind? > > > > FYI, I see no leaks under 64bit, but I do see a fair amount of "bloat". > > > > On 32bit Linux, my nsd process ran around 1.2gb, while under 64bits I'm > > around 7gb. > > > > However, no leaks. > > > > After a few days my nsd process size does not continue to grow, it is > > stable at ~17gb (I have a 10gb BerkeleyDB cache in process). > > > > I'm not clear on why anyone would need 64bit Aolserver unless they > > needed to use more than 2gb of RAM. > > > > I'm also not clear that the bloat is aolserver, and not tcl or other > > libraries I'm using. > > Move from 1.2gb to 7gb stable running state by just shifting from 32-bit > build to 64-bit build sounds a little fishy to me. I would expect, at > most, a 2x increase in process size (given theoretical changes). > However, theory and practice ... it could be that the alignment of data > in Tcl and/or AOLServer for 64-bit processes is just very poor, causing > massive overallocation. > > Jeff > > > -- > AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ > > To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> with the > body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: > field of your email blank. > -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
