Hi,
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006, Calum Mackay wrote:
> I've had gweather running for less than 24 hours, and I see it's resident
> memory usage is at 20MB:
> UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD
> calum 12240 1 0 22546 23092 0 Jun21 ? 00:01:52
> /usr/lib/gnome-a
> which seems insane. I'm only monitoring two weather stations.
One station here:
bee% ps -Fp 23058
UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD
lool 23058 1 0 13437 11512 0 Jun17 ? 00:00:20
/usr/lib/gnome-a
This url provides some information on how to look at the RSS:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/1999-April/msg02337.html
in short: it includes the weight of shared memory from e.g. shared
libraries.
gweather-applet-2 depends on 15 shared libraries, which in turn depend
on other shared libraries, etc., which sum up to 71 libraries.
You can get a better picture of memory *specific* to a process with
other fields from ps output, but the easiest is to look at memory
reported as free by errr free. In my case, I saw the second gweather
applet freeing 2368 kB of memory when I removed it.
This is still a lot, and I don't think this memory is used by the
weather applet itself, I think it's mostly destinated at the libraries
it uses and which need some buffers to store application data.
On a related subject, I've read about a patch floating around that
permits sharing of the same process to run multiple applets (and
effectively saving this memory time the number of applets). I think
Ubuntu uses it.
Cheers,
--
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
