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From: geoff@desint.itcorp.com (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Huge lpd
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.094736.20418@ITcorp.com>
Date: 7 Nov 90 09:47:36 GMT
Sender: geoff@ITcorp.com (Geoff Kuenning)
Organization: Interrupt Technology Corporation, Manhattan Beach, CA
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"ps aux" lists my LP daemon as occupying 16 meg of virtual space.  This
seems just the teensiest bit excessive to me, since I don't print much,
and print mostly enscripted ASCII.  My window server is only 10M, and
the kernel task is 14.4M (which I presume is due to having to maintain
page tables).

Why is lpd so huge?  Does it have a known memory leak?  Can I regain a
lot of virtual space by killing it and restarting it?  I care because
I don't have a lot of spare space for a huge swapfile.
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	Geoff Kuenning   geoff@ITcorp.com   uunet!desint!geoff