alternatively you could run/spawn ftpd from inetd, which will
presumably mean that all the resources will be 'returned' as soon as
the connection closes. However significant performance hit on a busy
ftp server.
/Pete
On 17. nov.. 2009, at 10.25, Artur Grabowski wrote:
"MK" <pub...@kubikcz.net> writes:
1. Is it normal that memory is not freed after I kill ftpd daemon?
yes. because the ftp daemon didn't allocate it.
2. Is it normal ftpd can take about 800MB of real memory while
serving
GET requests? (only 1 client is able to consume that portion of
memory)
If you serve 800MB of file data through ftpd then yes.
3. Is it normal that this memory seems to be lost from the system?
yes. The keyword here is "seems".
The memory is used for caching the file contents in case you decide to
read those files again. It's reused for more useful things when it's
needed.
//art
Pete Vickers
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