Well, given that ppp is handled by the kernel, I would guess that once the link is up, pppd doesn't actually do a hell of a lot. Given that it's a console app, probably linking to libc6 for most of that stuff anyway, would lead me to believe that it's basically a shell (a very important one mind you), where as kppp has a whole bunch of monitoring crap (mostly kernel stuff, but it's there), and most importantly, a GUI to deal with. I also think (but am not sure) that the mem usage reported there is shared ram. Someone care to correct/back me up? Edward On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 17:29, S Swami wrote:
'top(1)' tells me that my ppp connection from the console (while in X) takes significantly less memory than kppp: ------------------------------------------------------------------- # X usage for comparison PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 390 root 18 0 16880 9268 3444 R 3.6 7.3 8:12.19 X
# dial-up connection via console PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 24477 root 8 0 876 872 732 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.01 pppd
# and then later dial-up connection via kppp PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 25070 sns 9 0 13012 12m 11m S 0.0 10.3 0:01.34 kppp 25071 root 9 0 8080 8080 7624 S 0.0 6.4 0:00.01 kppp -------------------------------------------------------------------
Any advice will be appreciated. (I know what Craig's thinking :)
Cheers, Sid.
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