eek, 6M for 150 websites? how can I find out how much memory libcurl is
using? I'm running the same script multiple times. How do I find out the
memory that libcurl is using in each instance? or for all of libcurl?

Thanks.

>
>
> It seems only kept in memory.
>
>Jacky
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Phil Stevens" <ozzigold_at_hotmail.com>
>To: <curl-library_at_lists.sourceforge.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 3:06 PM
>Subject: Re: DNS cache size control
>
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Whereabouts in linux is the file that stores the libcurl cache?
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Is it possible to add some control on DNS cache size? Especially, the
> > >global
> > >one? I use global size and run through 150 websites and fnd that the
>dns
> > >cache size grow to more than 6M!!! There are two reasons:
> > > i) Libcurl won't remove some old expired dns cache
> > > ii) Libcurl will alloc 9000bytes to hold dns answer. However,
>normally,
>it
> > >just use 500-600bytes. (on Linux with gethostbyname_r).
> > >
> > > I solve the second problem by using an adaptive buffer size which
>reduce
> > >the
> > >dns cache size to 1/10 of the original. For the first problem, I can
>only
> > >destroy all handles and call global_cleanup. Is there any alternative?
> > >
> > >Jacky
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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