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        <question id="statd-mem-leak">

          <para>There is a memory leak in &man.rpc.statd.8;!  It is using

            256 Mbytes of memory!</para>

        </question>

        <answer>

          <para>No, there is no memory leak, and it's not using 256 Mbytes

            of memory.  It simply likes to (i.e., always does) map an

            obscene amount of memory into its address space for convenience.

            There is nothing terribly wrong with this from a technical

            standpoint; it just throws off things like &man.top.1; and

            &man.ps.1;.</para>

          <para>&man.rpc.statd.8; maps its status file (resident on

            <filename>/var</filename>) into its address space; to save

            worrying about remapping it later when it needs to grow, it maps

            it with a generious size.  This is very evident from the source

            code, where one can see that the length argument to &man.mmap.2;

            is <literal>0x10000000</literal>, or one sixteenth of the

            address space on an IA32, or exactly 256MB.</para>

        </answer>

      </qandaentry>