27 Sep
2004
27 Sep
'04
17:10
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 07:01:28PM +0200, Camilo Ruiz M?ndez wrote:
I am running a very large process (14 Gb), although it require less memory than is available, it picks up swap memory and the process run very slowly. Any ideas on why this is so.
Probably because your memory allocator doesn't give the memory it frees back to the kernel. -Andi