[OpenAFS-devel] AFSD memory footprint

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
02 Aug 2001 14:29:17 -0400


So, afsd winds up mallocing a lot of memory during it's cache sweep
and startup stages.  I don't think it needs most of that memory by the
time it calls into the kernel.  Is there any reason that we don't
'free()' that memory before the last afs_syscall()?  I'm thinking that
this could potentially free a few megabytes of RAM.  Or will it not
matter since the virtual memory is already mapped into the process
space?

-derek
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