Re: Why is a perl script 'sleep 100' uses 100 MEGS of RAM

From: Joost Diepenmaat <joost@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 30 Nov 2007 21:55:41 GMT

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:43:25 -0600, Ignoramus22774 wrote:

man ps

s size memory size in kilobytes

Yeah, well... *what* memory are we talking about? for instance, are
shared library memory sizes added to each program that uses that library?
How are copy-on-write fork/exec semantics handled etc etc.

Joost.
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References:
- Why is a perl script 'sleep 100' uses 100 MEGS of RAM
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- Re: Why is a perl script 'sleep 100' uses 100 MEGS of RAM
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- Re: Why is a perl script 'sleep 100' uses 100 MEGS of RAM
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- Re: Why is a perl script 'sleep 100' uses 100 MEGS of RAM
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