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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2012-11-25 10:04:14 +0100
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2012-11-25 10:04:14 +0100
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+[[!tag open_issue_hurd]]
+
+There are is some memory leak in [[`exec`|hurd/translator/exec]]. After twelve
+hours worth of `fork/exec` ([[GCC]]'s `check-c` part of the testsuite), we got:
+
+ PID UID PPID PGrp Sess TH Vmem RSS %CPU User System Args
+ 4 0 3 1 1 10 392M 262M 0.0 2:18.29 2hrs /hurd/exec
+
+The *RSS* seems a tad high. Also the system part of CPU time consumption is
+quite noticeable. In comparison:
+
+ 0 0 1 1 1 19 131M 1.14M 0.0 3:30.25 9:17.79 /hurd/proc
+ 3 0 1 1 1 224 405M 12.6M 0.2 42:20.25 67min ext2fs --readonly --multiboot-command-line=root=device:hd0s6 --host-priv-port=1 --device-master-port=2 --exec-server-task=3 -T typed device:hd0s6
+ 276 0 3 1 1 344 442M 28.2M 0.6 48:09.36 91min /hurd/ext2fs /dev/hd2s5