Marco van de Voort wrote:
What do they say about these values? Most notably, are you 100% sure that all memory regions that are shared are deducted?
I think Mattias hit the nail on the head regarding my system and memory fragmentation. My system had a uptime of 14 days (which is not really that long for my system). I never log out of my system and 90% of the time leave my applications open until the next day back at the office.
Clearly I must have had huge amounts of memory fragmentation for some reason. My system is a P4 2.4Ghz with 1Gig memory. I just got a Lazarus update and thought I would recompile Lazarus for the first time in 3 weeks.
I started the build and went on lunch. When I got back, I was VERY surprised that my system was still busy building the Lazarus IDE. The linker (ld) was using ALL my virtual "swap" memory - 2 Gigs of it, plus 700MB of physical memory. Needless to say my system was at a crawl.
I killed the linking process, rebooted and did the IDE build again. This time it only took a few seconds. I guess I need to schedule reboots more often than once a month (which is my norm). Though saying that, I used to run Ubuntu 7.10 exactly the same way on the same system and never noticed such issues. I'm now on Ubuntu 8.04.2 (upgraded from 7.10 2 months ago).
Anyway, I am a bit off-topic here... My final thought is that 'startlazarus' uses way to much memory for what it does - no matter how you look at it.
Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
