On Wednesday, 28. January 2009, John Denker wrote: > On 01/28/2009 02:25 AM, Erik Hofman wrote: > > I didn't check it myself yet, but every once in a while I have to do a > > 'make clean' before 'make install' for this sort of things (both for > > Simgear and FlightGear) > > Good advice; thanks. > > Alas after doing that, the memory bloat remains, as bad as ever. > I saw it peak at 905 megs at KASE before falling back to 888 megs.
"bloat" is a hard word for something, which you did not even measure yet. The VIRT column of top is basically useless for getting the memory usage. It's just the virtual address space allocated to that process. That includes: * memory allocated with malloc but not yet used, which means that there is no physical RAM used for it * mmap'ed files * shared memory and I'm sure some more which I'm not thinking of. According to VIRT, amarok uses > 730MB on my system which is a quite ridiculous number. If you're interested in memory usage of a process, a _start_ is the RES column. It's far nearer to the "truth" even though it does not count swap usage of the process. But if FG causes swapping, you don't need top to tell you :) That'd be obvious. Stefan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
