Re: Nautilus, galeon and evolution taking huge amount of memory...

[Loban Rahman <loban earthling net>]

> Note that even for non threaded applications, SIZE is not necessarily
> going to give an accurate idea of the actual memory useage.  There are
> other ways processes can share address space.  Shared memory is a common
> one (used for X shared images for instance).  Memory mapped files or
> devices are another (this includes shared libraries).

Yep. I guess pretty much the only way you are gonna get an accurate
count of an application's memory usage is using a profiling tool.