Comment #3 on issue 162 by ferranbonas: Starting memcached from cron or
sudo eats 1.5GB Virtual Memory
http://code.google.com/p/memcached/issues/detail?id=162
Here isthe pmap of the daemon with high virtual mem usage:
16977: memcached -d -p 11211 -u memcached -m 2048 -c 65535 -P
/var/run/memcached/memcached.pid -l 10.13.0.120
Address Kbytes RSS Anon Locked Mode Mapping
0079d000 4 - - - r-x-- [ anon ]
0098d000 104 - - - r-x-- ld-2.5.so
009a7000 4 - - - r---- ld-2.5.so
009a8000 4 - - - rw--- ld-2.5.so
009ab000 1276 - - - r-x-- libc-2.5.so
00aea000 4 - - - ----- libc-2.5.so
00aeb000 8 - - - r---- libc-2.5.so
00aed000 4 - - - rw--- libc-2.5.so
00aee000 12 - - - rw--- [ anon ]
00af3000 100 - - - r-x-- libevent-1.4.so.2.1.3
00b0c000 4 - - - rw--- libevent-1.4.so.2.1.3
00b83000 80 - - - r-x-- libpthread-2.5.so
00b97000 4 - - - r---- libpthread-2.5.so
00b98000 4 - - - rw--- libpthread-2.5.so
00b99000 8 - - - rw--- [ anon ]
00bb2000 28 - - - r-x-- librt-2.5.so
00bb9000 4 - - - r---- librt-2.5.so
00bba000 4 - - - rw--- librt-2.5.so
00cec000 76 - - - r-x-- libnsl-2.5.so
00cff000 4 - - - r---- libnsl-2.5.so
00d00000 4 - - - rw--- libnsl-2.5.so
00d01000 8 - - - rw--- [ anon ]
00d05000 60 - - - r-x-- libresolv-2.5.so
00d14000 4 - - - r---- libresolv-2.5.so
00d15000 4 - - - rw--- libresolv-2.5.so
00d16000 8 - - - rw--- [ anon ]
00ea6000 36 - - - r-x-- libnss_files-2.5.so
00eaf000 4 - - - r---- libnss_files-2.5.so
00eb0000 4 - - - rw--- libnss_files-2.5.so
08048000 80 - - - r-x-- memcached
0805c000 4 - - - rw--- memcached
0805d000 16 - - - rw--- [ anon ]
09a25000 2536 - - - rw--- [ anon ]
4f528000 30600 - - - rw--- [ anon ]
5130a000 4 - - - ----- [ anon ]
5130b000 302400 - - - rw--- [ anon ]
63a5b000 4 - - - ----- [ anon ]
63a5c000 302400 - - - rw--- [ anon ]
761ac000 4 - - - ----- [ anon ]
761ad000 302400 - - - rw--- [ anon ]
888fd000 4 - - - ----- [ anon ]
888fe000 302400 - - - rw--- [ anon ]
9b04e000 4 - - - ----- [ anon ]
9b04f000 302672 - - - rw--- [ anon ]
bf9bd000 88 - - - rw--- [ stack ]
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total kB 1547484 - - -