emo@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Eric Ost) (02/09/89)
Can anyone tell me why processes run under SR10.1 seem to be so much larger than similar ones run under SR9.7? Memory usage has seemed to increase dramatically for some reason. I'd like to know why, if anyone has this information. Can I force SR10.1 processes to use less memory? Does this problem lie at the kernel level? As an example: An "ls -l" shows that the file /bin/date is 5305 bytes big. But, when I go to exec it, using "ps" I see that its size (SZ) is 512 Kbytes! What is causing this large demand on memory? I understand that processes will allocate space and thereby expand in size, but what we are seeing is process bloat, rather than what could be considered normal. Any information would be quite helpful. Thanks. eric