On Sunday, 13 November 2022 09:03:40 PST Henry Skoglund wrote: > I can confirm "several tiny libraries" i.e. I had the same problem when > building Qt on Ubuntu 22.04. > After fiddling for a while, I took the easy way out: > sudo apt-get install libxcb* > > That installed 68 libs (all beginning with libxcb-) probably overkill > but at least it solved the problem :-)
Those XCB libraries are generated from the X specification, that's why there are so many of them. But this split up is counter-productive now. As you've seen, it causes headache in forgetting just one of them. And as we add content to Qt, what built one version may not build the next, so you have to review after the upgrade. The next problem is memory fragmentation. At a bare minimum, each library on Linux must be one read-only page containing code and one read-write page containing the GOT. Most Linux distros actually split a bit more for security, with a read-only non-executable page before the executable one, then one more after for read-only constant data and yet another for post-relocation read- only, like so: Address Kbytes RSS PSS Dirty Swap Mode Mapping 00007fed1e9e6000 4 4 0 0 0 r--p- libxcb-shm.so. 0.0.0 00007fed1e9e7000 4 4 0 0 0 r-xp-libxcb-shm.so. 0.0.0 00007fed1e9e8000 4 4 0 0 0 r--p- libxcb-shm.so. 0.0.0 00007fed1e9e9000 4 4 4 4 0 r--p- libxcb-shm.so. 0.0.0 00007fed1e9ea000 4 4 4 4 0 rw-p-libxcb-shm.so. 0.0.0 And the last two pages are not sharable between processes, so each one of those costs 5 VMA entries in the page tables, 8 kB of non-sharable data, and a bit of load-time work processing relocations. All this for this tiny XCB library: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14416 Aug 31 05:33 /lib64/libxcb-shm.so.0.0.0 For Clear Linux, we've "tricked" the build to just merge all those libraries and libX11.so into a single .so, so they are loaded once only and occupy Much less memory. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Cloud Software Architect - Intel DCAI Cloud Engineering _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest
