Re: Memory consumption

[Andrejj Karavaev <aka_ bk ru>]

John Cupitt wrote:

> On 11/25/05, Andrey Karavaev <aka_ bk ru> wrote:
>  
>
> > How about reducing of memory consumption(may be in next GTK+ versions..) ?
> > Problem is following: even very simple GTK-application takes huge place
> > in memory(& resident memory).... so if we have multiuser sysem .....
> >    
>
> Memory use can be hard to measure. "ps" shows a "hello world" program
> on my ubuntu machine at 11MB, but looking at /proc/xx/status I see
> that 'only' 810kb have actually been allocated.
>
> If I add a second label and a vbox to hold the two labels, memory use
> goes up to 812kb. I guess a chunk of this 2kb is down to the theme
> (clearlooks, I think).
>
> (Hope I've not misunderstood you here)
>  
True: 810kb - in resident memory, and ~10Mb in swap - as i remember.
Some times system needs to working with swap and it is
very slow. The most of all it becames in multiuser system/server.