[mv] Is it normal for minivend to spawn several processes? (a BSD issue?)

[Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com>]

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Hello! I'm running MV 4.04 on FreeBSD 3.1 and I am having some severe
performance problems on a basically empty box. Since I generally hear
that Minivend is very fast, I'm assuming that there is some
configuration in my environment that is wack. With this project, I'm
just using Minivend's default flat-file system, so I can take Postgres
out of the equation here. Just now I was waiting for the 'simple' login
page to load and it took _several_minutes_. Using 'top' I could see that
minivend was doing something during that time, but I couldn't tell what.
Frequently there were 2, 3, and 4 minivend processes running at once.
Here some captures of that:

 PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
56565 softskul  29   0  1600K   436K RUN      0:02  3.59%  0.34% top
56580 mvend    -18   0 15304K  3064K swread   0:00  0.99%  0.29% perl
56572 mvend    -18   0 15304K  5488K swread   0:01  0.24%  0.20% perl
56579 mvend    -22   0 15304K  4624K vmpfw    0:00  0.66%  0.20% perl
56577 mvend    -18   0 15304K  3664K swread   0:00  0.27%  0.10% perl
   98 root       2 -12  1040K   164K select  10:55  0.00%  0.00% xntpd
   91 root       2   0   820K     0K select   1:30  0.00%  0.00% <syslogd>

 PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
56568 mvend    -18   0 15304K  5668K swread   0:01  0.75%  0.59% perl
56575 mvend    -18   0 15304K  1900K swread   0:00  1.40%  0.20% perl
56573 softskul   2   0   944K   592K sbwait   0:00  0.81%  0.15% popper
56574 mvend    -18   0 15304K  1640K swread   0:00  0.27%  0.05% perl

In the top grab, Minivend appears to using over 60 Megs of memory!
(although very little CPU, as was typical). Is this behavior of Minivend
normal, or should I take this as indicator of what my problem might be?

Perhaps another FreeBSD user has solved a similar issue?

   -mark

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