That's memory management then. It reserves a large block of VIRT but resident set size is generally very low. This is to prevent memory fragmentation. When you compare it to something like Java, it has great memory management.
PopcornTime doesn't make you register and saves all bookmarks and settings. But then, that's an actual application that runs on your PC so it is able to save configuration files on the device itself. I think with some hardware ID authentication/logging, registration would not be needed. I am...
This is pretty cool. I wonder what kind of overhead it would have with a highly active SQL server (ie - 1k+ QPS) that also has slave replication. I'm no DBA but surprised we haven't seen something like this before (most things similar to this are used for DB clusters). Nice share :)
# strace -o /root/strace.myscript -fvt -s 8192 /etc/init.d/myscript
# less /root/strace.myscript
But yeah, this shouldn't be a service and instead a cron to grep the latest Fatal error(s) from your log file.