It depends on how it does memory management
It depends on how it does memory management
Posted Jan 2, 2003 15:57 UTC (Thu) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224)In reply to: Emacs is tiny. by kbob
Parent article: Fixing up the shared page table patch
See the section "Buried in VMA's" here:
http://lwn.net/2001/0809/kernel.php3
in particular read Chris Wedgewood's detailed analysis. Seems
that Mozilla alloc's memory in small chunks and GLIBC's handling
of this is rather weird, which leads to lots of these problems
and lots of VMAs.
I think some of the fixes for this have gone into the 2.5.X kernel,
but I don't know abouit 2.4, so maybe simply switching kernels or
updating your GLIBC may reduce the VMAs a lot.