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Re: dictd quite memory hungry...



On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:24:36 +0100 (CET)
Alexander List <alexlist@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at> wrote:
> 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?!
.... snip ...
>   179 nobody     9   0  6100 6072  5264 S     0.0  2.3   0:00 dictd

dictd is not really meant to be run by an end-user. On my system, 'ps
aux | grep dictd' shows:

nobody     306  0.0  3.9 34264 8840 ?        S    11:18   0:00 dictd
1.5.5: 0/0

Obviously a lot more that yours is using ;) But then again, I have many
dictionaries installed.

Uninstall dictd, the 'dict' client will go out and look up dictionaries
on the 'net.

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