Re: Huge memory usage from last build

[raster redhat com]

On  6 Feb, Marcus Brubaker scribbled:
->  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?

not possible - the pixmap engine will use no more than an extrqa 512Kb
of client-side memory and 2Mb of server-side memory - the imlib cache
sizes (byt default). it's something else - NOt the pixmap engine.. its
actually rather lean mem wise.

->  Regards,
->  Marcus Brubaker
->  spoon@elpaso.net
->  http://www.elpaso.net/~spoon
->  
->  Hundred-year quarantine.-- Democratic institutions are quarantine
->  arrangements to combat that ancient pestilence, lust for tyranny: as such
->  they are very useful and very boring.
->  
->    from Nietzsche's The Wanderer and his Shadow,s. 289, R.J. Hollingdale transl.
->  
->  

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