Am Fri, 22 Jan 1999 schrieb Andreas Pour:
>Hello,
>
>I never noticed this before -- this is Jan. 20th snapshot -- kfm is
>becoming *huge*  -- bigger than even netscape.  Look here:
>
>
>  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME
>COMMAND
> 9080 pour       0   0 19556 8348  1060 S       0  0.0 13.2   4:11 kfm
>32327 pour       0   0 16240 7488  3428 S       0  0.0 11.9   0:52
>netscape
>
>And I only have one window open in kfm!  Why might this be?  I was
>browsing with it for a while -- perhaps it is not freeing images?  Don't
>know, I will keep my eyes open to see if I see what causes increases,
>just thought I'd report it right away.

perhaps this has something to do with fragmentation of the heap. i've writte a
mmap() based zone-allocator but i'm too lazy to make it work without namespaces
and autoconf-ing it. I could however post the source, it's not that long :)

servas,
  robert

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