Jim Gettys wrote: > Bert, > > Don't confuse virtual address space used with RAM consumed: most of that > is shared memory (glibc, pango, gtk+....). > > That's why memphis was written and is in our build: ps gives very > misleading memory usage statistics, unless you really understand what it > is reporting. It does a bit better job accounting for memory used in a > mere-mortal way to understand.
cool http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/memphis;a=tree > > Even so, right now we'll find lots more RAM consumed that we'd like, due > to how python loads modules; we have schemes for fixing this using fork > and copy on write. See also http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ps_mem.py cheers, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
