[rrd-users] Re: Heavy-Duty RRD Usage

[Chris Snell]

Tobias Oetiker wrote:

>rrdtool loads ALL the data it uses to build the graph into memory
>... and because processes can not give back any memory they can not
>shrink ...
>

Hmmm.  This seems kind of strange.  Why is RRDtool not able to deallocate
memory after it is done graphing?  Other Perl modules apparently do this.
Take, for example, the DBI module:  if it never cleaned up its memory with
each query, memory could be quickly exhausted.

Chris


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