Gustaf Räntilä, le Wed 27 Aug 2008 12:50:45 +0200, a écrit :
> I haven't seen many discussions about this in debian, and just 1 about ubuntu 
> [1]. It could be that I have gotten things completely the wrong way (then 
> please tell me so), but it could also be that this has been overseen for too 
> long, and now needs serious attention.

Do not mistake virtual memory for resident memory.  Aligning stuff in
the address space is not a problem, it does _not_ consume any memory
(even less if the library is not even used).

> 31095 gustaf    20   0 1314m 700m  35m R   30 17.8 252:06.36 firefox-bin
> 32197 gustaf    20   0 1006m 439m  39m S   12 11.2 167:03.50 epiphany-browse

Here are the suckers, not pidgin.  Do not have a look at virtual
numbers, as the name says these are virtual.  Have a look at the %MEM or
RES columns instead.

Samuel



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