Memory Usage of BIRD

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:14:04AM +0200, Wolfgang Hennerbichler wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I just made a little experiment:
> * let BIRD peer with a router that has Full Feed
> * letting BIRD eat Full Feed (and tweet) - memory footprint ~ 130 MB BTW 
> (64 Bit Linux)
> * shutting the session down on the router-side
> * BIRD's memory consumption decreased to 128 MB, but was never freed  
> again.

This is probably caused by memory fragmentation and is otherwise harmless.
You can try that if you shut down the session and after a while shut up
the session, the memory footprint shouldn't be much larger than initially
(memory that was freed by BIRD but not released to OS is reused).

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