Re: [orca-list] Orca still uses to many memory in my machine

["Bill Dengler(Ubuntu)" <billkd2008 gmail com>]

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On 04/21/2013 12:13 AM, Jason White wrote:
> José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br> wrote:
> > After I upgraded to 3.8, I found that orca is still using a lot of
> > memory in my machine.
> Are you sure?
>
> It's notoriously hard to find out how much memory a process is really using
> due to the way in which the kernel's virtual memory system works.
> Unfortunately I can't refer you to a good discussion, but this topic has
> arisen on other mailing lists before. Apparently the numbers you get from most
> tools can be very misleading if you don't know how virtual memory works
> (shared copy-on-write pages, swapping, etc.).
>
> You might have a problem, of course, but I wouldn't draw conclusions too
> hastily from tools that report process memory usage.
>
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