Re: Memory Issues

["Jeffrey Stedfast" <fejj helixcode com>]

Actually, threads do get their own process ids.
At least in Linux pthreads.

Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Poletti, Don" <don poletti comverse-in com>
To: "'Maher Awamy'" <muhri muhri net>
Cc: <gnome-list gnome org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 12:51 PM
Subject: RE: Memory Issues


> I'm a little confused by this here is a ps -aux snippet
> thanks to oleg. There are 4 process ids. Threads do not
> get a process id, or am I missing something.
>
> oleg      1994  0.0  0.4 32676  272 tty2     S    Dec18   0:26
[mozilla-bin]
> oleg      1996  0.0  0.4 32676  272 tty2     S    Dec18   0:00
[mozilla-bin]
> oleg      1997  0.0  0.4 32676  272 tty2     S    Dec18   0:02
[mozilla-bin]
> oleg      1998  0.0  0.4 32676  272 tty2     S    Dec18   0:00
[mozilla-bin]
> r
>
> >
> > On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:17:51 -0500, Poletti, Don said:
> >
> > > I'm having performance problems on my machine and I'm 99%
> > >  sure its due to memory issues. I have 64Megs of Ram. But when
> > >  I run Galeon or Mozilla My machine starts swapping like mad
> > >  and changing windows talks 5 seconds or more. Using Gtop
> > >  I found that Galeon uses 80megs and Mozilla 0.6 was using
> > >  130Megs! In both cases that was just to launch and display
> > >  Google's home page. No wonder my machine was crawling.
> >
> > Errm.. Mozilla or Galeon or any threaded application is not
> > using ALL the
> > memory that gtop will report, those are threads.. so if you
> > say Galeon is using
> > 80 megabytes, you are adding up all the threads... Count one
> > thread memory
> > usage only, probably around 20 megabytes. Same goes for
> > Mozilla, same goes for
> > Xmms, same goes for Skipstone.. FYI ;-)
> >
> > Maher
> >
> > >
> > >  What are my alternatives. I find this very annoying since
> > >  IE does need nearly so much ram so this makes Linux/Gnome
> > >  crawl compared with windows running on the same hardware doing
> > >  similar tasks.
> > >
> > >  While I'm on a rant it look likes XMMS takes like 10-15 megs
> > >  Is it just me or does this seem way excessive.
> > >
> > >  This will effectively keep me from using Linux/Gnome since
> > >  it less than half the speed of windows on my machine.
> > >
> > >
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