Hi Miguel,

The 8mb blocks are most likely thread stacks. I was wondering about the same thing yesterday. You can try to lower the thread stack space or try to lower the number of running threads. Depending on whether overcommit is enabled the actual memory usage will be lower, though.

Best regards,
Martijn Wijns

On 21-12-2010 13:36, miguel sofer wrote:
I am doing firsts tests with DFB, and am a bit worried about memory consumption. I am pretty sure this is PEBKAC, and would appreciate a couple of hints as to how to do things better.

I am doing my first explorations on a netbook running Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. I am using directfb from the repositories.

Running pmap on the tutorial at
  http://directfb.org/docs/DirectFB_Tutorials/simple.html
I see

...

00ed6000     80K r-x--  /usr/lib/libdirect-1.2.so.0.8.0
00eea000      4K r----  /usr/lib/libdirect-1.2.so.0.8.0
00eeb000      4K rw---  /usr/lib/libdirect-1.2.so.0.8.0
08048000      4K r-x--  /tmp/a.out
08049000      4K r----  /tmp/a.out
0804a000      4K rw---  /tmp/a.out
09a01000    132K rw---    [ anon ]
b0670000      4K -----    [ anon ]
b0671000   8192K rw---    [ anon ]
b0e71000      4K -----    [ anon ]
b0e72000   8192K rw---    [ anon ]
b1672000      4K -----    [ anon ]
b1673000   8192K rw---    [ anon ]
b1e73000      4K -----    [ anon ]
b1e74000   8192K rw---    [ anon ]
b6e7d000   2400K rw-s-  /dev/fb0
b70d5000      4K -----    [ anon ]
b70d6000   8204K rw---    [ anon ]
b78ec000      8K rw---    [ anon ]
bfca3000     84K rw---    [ stack ]
 total    46184K

My question is: what are all those 8 mb blocks of r/w memory? Is it possible to configure DFB to not use so much RAM?

We will eventually be targetting a memory constrained device, so that 40+ mb for an essentially empty app means that DFB will likely not be usable.

Thanks
Miguel
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