Re: Huge memory usage from last build

[Marcus Brubaker <spoon elpaso net>]

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Brian J. Murrell wrote:

> I updated from CVS last night and was cleaning a building somewhat all
> night and day and now see the following from some of the new binaries:
> 
>   PID USER PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
>   595 x      0   0 26920 6688  1924 S       0  0.0 10.5   0:01 gmenu
>   594 x     18   0 38368 5212  1072 S       0  5.6  8.2   0:21 gtop
>   558 x      0   0 24856 1712  1148 S       0  0.0  2.6   0:02 gtkicq
> 
> Like holy yikes batman!  What the hell happened to make gnome apps need
> that kind of memory foot print!

Are you using the latest pixmap engine?  If you are, that is part of it.
I don't know what else it might be.  Have you tweaked with your Imlib
settings recently and allocated some outrageous amount of mem for a cache?

Regards,
Marcus Brubaker
spoon@elpaso.net
http://www.elpaso.net/~spoon

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