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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Thu,  5 Feb 2009 08:11:52 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Vac using gobs of RAM?
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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? :)

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

- erik