Any kernel gurus out there? I've got myself a sparkling brand new copy of
licq. As I've found out, it's threaded, but 'top' shows the threads
separately:
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
9597 az 0 0 5828 5828 4332 S 0 0.0 4.5 0:00 licq
9600 az 0 0 5828 5828 4332 S 0 0.0 4.5 0:00 licq
9601 az 0 0 5828 5828 4332 S 0 0.0 4.5 0:00 licq
9602 az 0 0 5828 5828 4332 S 0 0.0 4.5 0:00 licq
9603 az 0 0 5828 5828 4332 S 0 0.0 4.5 0:00 licq
The reply I got from the licq-main list follows:
----- Forwarded message from XXXXX -----
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 08:57:00 +0200
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Don, 11 Mai 2000, Cantanker wrote:
> I was just wondering, is licq supposed to spawn 5 copies of itself and use
> 30MB of memory? (That's the qt version.) Seems strange to me...
It does not. Licq is a multithreaded application, and Linux displays threads
similiar to processes.
Licq Qt-GUI uses about 900kb of memory. You're looking at the value that is
the mapped address space and not the memory usage.
As this value is useless, kernel 2.4 does not calculcate it any more.
----- End forwarded message -----
Now, questions. I'm running 2.3.99, but the 'top' output above is from this
kernel. So how much is a development kernel a preview of the next stable
kernel?
Also, how accurate is this 'top' output? Is it showing, as the reply
suggested, the *shared*, *mapped* address space? And is this the same for
all processes? (Like gnome, which, according to 'top', seems to really hog
memory, 4mb for the panel and *each* applet, not to mention Netscape.)
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