[MUD-Dev] Text Parsing

Matthew Mihaly diablo at best.com
Thu Jun 10 14:35:30 CEST 1999


On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Petri Virkkula wrote:

> >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Mihaly <diablo at best.com> writes:
> 
> 
> 	Right now we have total memory available is 768M, the driver
> 	directly takes 164M of it and other processes take 87M. Still
> 	there is only 74M free RAM. Rest of missing 443M is used by
> 	kernel, and there probably mostly by disk cache. I think it is
> 	reasonable to say that our driver takes currently 650-800M
> 	RAM, even when eg. top says it takes only around 200M. For
> 	example, when available memory was reduced from 1280M to 768M
> 	we clearly noticed a slight slowdown.

Hmm! So TOP isn't particularly accurate then? I was wondering about this
myself, becuase as malloc creeps up due to a memory leak, performance
slows, even though it shows no virtual ram being used. I will take your
recommendation and upgrade to 256 megs of RAM immediately, thanks!

-matt




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