Re: Mozilla eats even more memory
> Right, so it's not a bug in my top-like program, just a bug in the
> kernel :-)
>
some people really think this way. but linus insists on doing it his way -
and he is right. :-)
> Mind you, if the memory space is always identical (surely position
> as well as size)
> then why is it difficult to find shared threads? Very naïve of me
> I know, but surely
> you don't need to go too deep into the system to find the base
> address of a process.
>
of course, it is very simple to find it out - at system level.
the process descriptors point to the same mm structure, so everything is
clear.
the problem is the user space. i don't know, if there is any interfaces
which makes this internal memory manager information public to the user
space. but even if it exists, then the user-space program would have to
actively use it (in that case you were right - it could be called buggy
(or at least out of date) if it did not use the interface.
regards
--
Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please!
--
Real programmers don't comment their code.
It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
--
Become part of the world's biggest computer cluster -
join http://www.distributed.net/
Reply to: