Subject: Re: Memory leak?
To: Scott L. Burson <gyro@zeta-soft.com>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@fwi.uva.nl>
List: current-users
Date: 02/09/1996 09:56:40
Quoting Scott L. Burson,
> Heh. No worse than the vendor binary-only OS on my home machine, which
> is a Mach derivative and - AFAICT - suffers from the same bug. It's
> just less obvious because it's harder to definitely identify without
> kernel source :-)
> SunOS 4 may well have the same bug. I just added up the process sizes from
> `ps' on my machine and got 97224k, but `pstat -s' reports 137612k used. I've
> seen such discrepancies many times before, and have long wondered what caused
> them.
It seems unlikely that SunOS 4 has the same bug, since the VM system in
SunOS 4 is quite different from the Mach-derived VM system in 4.3+ BSD
systems.
- Frank