Threaded 6.4 code compiled under 9.0 uses a lot more memory?..

Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdlist at ovitrap.com
Tue Oct 30 11:27:37 UTC 2012


Hi,

On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:12:22 +0000
Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst at tdx.co.uk> wrote:

> Can anyone think of any quick pointers as to why some code originally 
> written under 6.4 amd64 - when re-compiled under 9.0-stable amd64
> takes up a *lot* more memory when running?
> 
is it still the same compiler?


> As an example, under 6.4 the size/res for one reported by top is
> 81Mb/48Mb 
> - and for the other is 44Mb/9Mb [this is after it's been running for
> weeks].
> 
I assume that it is a plain FreeBSD program without X.

Erich


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