dictd quite memory hungry...

[Alexander List <alexlist@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at>]

Hello,

I have dictd 1.5.5-4 running on my System (Dual-PII-400), and it seems
that though rarely used, it is the nastiest one concerning memory usage.
Is there any reason for that? Shouldn't it be swapped out if unused?!

Here's what top gives me after switching to "sort by memory usage" view:


 11:20:54 up 10:48,  1 user,  load average: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00
56 processes: 55 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.2% user,   0.5% system,   0.0% nice,  99.3% idle
Mem:    256044K total,   240992K used,    15052K free,    50940K buffers
Swap:   642404K total,     8404K used,   634000K free,   117604K cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
  179 nobody     9   0  6100 6072  5264 S     0.0  2.3   0:00 dictd
  380 root       9   0  3976 3976  3816 S     0.0  1.5   0:02 ntpd
[...]

Thanks for any hints!

Alex

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