Re: Extreme memory usage for gnome-panel related apps

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 09:34 +0100, Mark wrote:
> // begin note
> 
> i posted this in the fedora-list first but wasn't getting reply's that
> are discussing what i say below. And for the memory (in the text
> below).. Using it all up doesn't mean that it's used good. See it like
> your a rich guy. you can spend it all at once or just go easy on it. i
> would like to go for the latter one. + send to the gnome desktop devel
> list
> 
> // end note
> 
> 
> Hey,
> 
> i was just looking through the system monitor to see how my memory
> usage was doing and that gave me a impressive (negative way) result.
> I've made a screenshot [1] of it and edited it a little. The color
> that i added in mean:
> 
> - darkred : extreme memory usage for..?? nothing?
> - red : gnome-panel related things (applets mostly)
> - orange : first applet UNDER one MB.
<snip>
> 0.7 MB (bluetooth-applet)
<snip>

bluetooth-applet isn't an applet, it's a notification area icon, thus
doesn't load the panel applet libraries and dependencies into its
address space. You're most certainly gaining a couple of megs there.

But your tests are flawed, see Ross' mails, they point to explanations
on how to gather memory usage data.

Cheers