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* [9fans] Vac using gobs of RAM?
@ 2009-02-05  5:30 Nathaniel W Filardo
  2009-02-05 13:11 ` erik quanstrom
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Nathaniel W Filardo @ 2009-02-05  5:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

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I am running the admittedly somewhat odd vac command
> phlogiston% vac \
>     -d ... -q \ 
>     -f ... \ 
>     -h ... \ 
>     -e acme/acid/386 -e acme/acid/alpha -e acme/acid/arm \
>     -e acme/acid/mips -e acme/acid/power -e acme/bin/386 \
>     -e acme/bin/alpha -e acme/bin/arm -e acme/bin/mips \
>     -e acme/bin/power -e acme/mail/386 -e acme/mail/alpha \
>     -e acme/mail/arm -e acme/mail/mips -e acme/mail/power \
>     -e sys/man/vol1.ps -e sys/man/vol1.ps.gz -e sys/man/vol1.pdf \
>     LICENSE* NOTICE acme lib rc sys ;
and observe 
> nwf           42696    0:00   0:00    82744K Fstat    vac
which raises the natural question
> What is vac doing with 83 megabytes of RAM!?

Thoughts? :)
--nwf;

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* Re: [9fans] Vac using gobs of RAM?
  2009-02-05  5:30 [9fans] Vac using gobs of RAM? Nathaniel W Filardo
@ 2009-02-05 13:11 ` erik quanstrom
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: erik quanstrom @ 2009-02-05 13:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

> I am running the admittedly somewhat odd vac command
> > phlogiston% vac \
> >     -d ... -q \
> >     -f ... \
> >     -h ... \
> >     -e acme/acid/386 -e acme/acid/alpha -e acme/acid/arm \
> >     -e acme/acid/mips -e acme/acid/power -e acme/bin/386 \
> >     -e acme/bin/alpha -e acme/bin/arm -e acme/bin/mips \
> >     -e acme/bin/power -e acme/mail/386 -e acme/mail/alpha \
> >     -e acme/mail/arm -e acme/mail/mips -e acme/mail/power \
> >     -e sys/man/vol1.ps -e sys/man/vol1.ps.gz -e sys/man/vol1.pdf \
> >     LICENSE* NOTICE acme lib rc sys ;
> and observe
> > nwf           42696    0:00   0:00    82744K Fstat    vac
> which raises the natural question
> > What is vac doing with 83 megabytes of RAM!?
>
> Thoughts? :)

leak -a, acid -ltrump are ready-made tools for this.

- erik



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