[9fans] hungry fossil?

[9fans] hungry fossil?

[cej]

hi,
i use fossil as my fs on both thinkpad t23 and desktop standalone installations.
strangely, fossil uses >10 processes taking over 250megs of RAM
am i missing something? or is it ok and should i use kfs instead?
is kfs to be continued, or abandoned  in the future?
 
thanks, regards, and PF 2005,
 
++pac.
 
what follows is part of the table of processes on a freshly booted comp:
term% ps
pac               1    0:00   0:00      88K Await    init
pac               2    0:27   0:00       0K Ready    genrandom
pac               3    0:00   0:00       0K Wakeme   alarm
pac               5    0:00   0:00       0K Wakeme   rxmitproc
pac               6    0:00   0:00     244K Pread    factotum
pac               8    0:00   0:00   26356K Rendez   fossil
pac               9    0:00   0:00   26356K Rendez   fossil
pac              10    0:00   0:00   26356K Pread    fossil
pac              11    0:00   0:00   26356K Rendez   fossil
pac              12    0:00   0:00   26356K Sleep    fossil
pac              13    0:00   0:00   26356K Rendez   fossil
pac              14    0:00   0:00   26356K Rendez   fossil
pac              15    0:00   0:00   26356K Sleep    fossil
pac              16    0:00   0:00   26356K Sleep    fossil
pac              17    0:00   0:00   26356K Rendez   fossil
pac              18    0:00   0:00   26356K Pread    fossil
pac              19    0:00   0:00   26356K Rendez   fossil
pac              20    0:00   0:00   26356K Pread    fossil
pac              21    0:00   0:00   26356K Rendez   fossil
pac              22    0:00   0:00       0K Idle     pager
pac              23    0:00   0:01     704K Rendez   rio
pac              26    0:00   0:00     116K Pread    mntgen
pac              29    0:00   0:00     172K Pread    cs

Re: [9fans] hungry fossil?

[andrey mirtchovski]

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those are threads, so they share the memory (i.e.  you shouldn't add
them together).  in this case fossil appears "hungry" because it uses
most of the memory it occupies for cache, selected by the -c option to
open in its config.

attached is a hastily put together script that gives you the memory
used on your computer in readable form.

andrey

> hi,
> i use fossil as my fs on both thinkpad t23 and desktop standalone installations.
> strangely, fossil uses >10 processes taking over 250megs of RAM
> am i missing something? or is it ok and should i use kfs instead?
> is kfs to be continued, or abandoned  in the future?
>  
> thanks, regards, and PF 2005,
>  
> ++pac.
>  

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#!/bin/rc

# show available and used memory in
# user-discernible format.

all=`{cat /dev/swap | sed 's,/, ,g'}

# 4096/(1024*1024)
pageinmb=0.00390625 

mem = `{echo $all(1)^'*'^$pageinmb | hoc }
memtotal = `{echo $all(2)^'*'^$pageinmb | hoc}
swap = `{echo $all(4)^'*'^$pageinmb | hoc }
swaptotal = `{echo $all(5)^'*'^$pageinmb | hoc}

echo memory: $mem MB used. $memtotal MB total
echo swap: $swap MB used. $swaptotal MB total