[collectd] collectd uses a lot of virtual memory

[Christoffer Sawicki]

Hello!

collectd uses a lot of virtual memory on my system:

% ps aux | head -n1; ps aux | grep collectd
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root      6131  0.1  0.3  67952  2288 ?        Sl   21:49   0:00
collectd -C /etc/collectd/collectd.conf -f
root     26504  0.0  0.0   1436   308 ?        S    Aug24   0:00
supervise collectd

VSZ is 67952 which seems a lot to me. Is this normal? Is there anyway
I can lower it (perhaps by using more lazy memory allocation)? I care
about the amount of allocated memory (and not only used memory) since
it is counted against my VPS quota.

Thankful for any useful answers.

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Regards,
Christoffer Sawicki