On Dec 20,  7:53pm, Mark Brinicombe wrote:
> Subject: Re: Compile prob
> On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Ale Terlevich wrote:
>
> >    Is the arm as being hugely wasteful? does it really need all of this
> > space, or has it got a huge memory leak?
>
> I don't know of any large memory leaks at all. I think a big problem is
> the lack of shared libraries atm. If you consider that every binary has a
> chunk of libc linked into it, it becomes easier to see where the memory goes.
>
> There could always be memory leaks but I would not expect many in
> userland binaries as I am sure they would have been spotted by other
> NetBSD users on different platforms.

If you run X beware of heap fragmentation. It manifests itself as a memory leak
but is much harder to cure. Unfortunately RiscBSD is particularly badly hit.

Cheers

Rob