[H-GEN] Number of 'named' processes spawned?

[Robert Brockway]

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On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Tony Melia (DMS) wrote:

> How do I limit the number of 'named' processes spawned by the Caching name
> server in RH 7.2?  It has spawned 5, they take about 5M each, but I only
> need 1 or 2 since we have very few users.  Checked config files and google
> groups, but nothing listed.

Linux uses "copy on write pages" so most of the binaries are duplicated.
Ie, the meory is only used once if you have 1, 5 or 100 binaries running.
Only pages which are different between the binaries need be seperate.

In addition, un-used binaries are swapped out, so in reality you should
find they take up minimal system resources.

Checkout top & see the amount of shared memory "SHARE" they are using.

Cheers,
	-Rob

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