Very Computer

Thanks go to Emmanuelle et Philippe and Claus-Peter Knaut who recently
helped me get mars_nwe properly configured for my machine. I can now share
and print files from  W95.

However, I've noticed what I think is a problem. The nwbind process starts
using about 3200KB of memory; as time goes on, however, it begins using more
and more and more; right now, 4hr 30min after the process was started, ps
reports a RSS of 9800KB.

Two days ago I left the daemon running for a whole day, and found it was
using 26M, with a Virtual image size of 31M!

I feel that this is abnormal behaviour... I'm not much of a C programmer
(Fortran is my game, sorry) so I'm uncertain I can help in tracking this
problem, if indeed it needs tracking - but if anyone has advice on what
to look for, I'm game.

PS - in the time it took me to write from '9800' to here, nwbind has grown
to 9956KB.

Kendall Hunter
University of Colorado

: Thanks go to Emmanuelle et Philippe and Claus-Peter Knaut who recently
: helped me get mars_nwe properly configured for my machine. I can now share
: and print files from  W95.

: However, I've noticed what I think is a problem. The nwbind process starts
: using about 3200KB of memory; as time goes on, however, it begins using more
: and more and more; right now, 4hr 30min after the process was started, ps
: reports a RSS of 9800KB.

: Two days ago I left the daemon running for a whole day, and found it was
: using 26M, with a Virtual image size of 31M!

: I feel that this is abnormal behaviour... I'm not much of a C programmer
: (Fortran is my game, sorry) so I'm uncertain I can help in tracking this
: problem, if indeed it needs tracking - but if anyone has advice on what
: to look for, I'm game.

: PS - in the time it took me to write from '9800' to here, nwbind has grown
: to 9956KB.

I run mars_nwe (revision date of nwbind 12 July 1996)here.  My max uptime is
about 80 days with no problems (circuit breaker blew!).
Here is an extract from 'top' on my machine (a 486SX-66 with 10M memory, 2.0.6).
As the load average show it doesn't get a huge amount of use, but nwe is
used for file sharing and printing from win 3.1

 12:39pm  up 14 days, 23:31,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.02
45 processes: 44 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  3.7% user,  5.3% system,  9.0% nice, 91.0% idle

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 1555 root       0   0   680  616   300 S       0  0.0  5.6   0:05 nwbind
 1554 root       0   0   560  520   268 S       0  0.0  4.7   0:01 nwserv
 1556 root       0   0   436  400   168 S       0  0.0  3.6   0:20 ncpserv

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