Re: Milestones document

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Another interesting way to look at memory is the "memprof" tool; it will
> tell you how much _allocated_ memory a process is using (which is unshared
> memory not on the stack).

memprof tells you how much memory has been malloc'd, but it doesn't tell
you how much unshared non-stack memory the process is using. A lot of
memory gets used by global/static variables that are written to.

-- Elliot
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